Zhao Ma is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History and Culture at Washington University in St. Louis.
发表于2024-11-22
Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937-1949 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 海外中国研究 马钊 妇女史 民国史 城市史 北京 历史 民国
From 1937 to 1949, Beijing was in a state of crisis. The combined forces of Japanese occupation, civil war, runaway inflation, and reformist campaigns and revolutionary efforts wreaked havoc on the city’s economy, upset the political order, and threatened the social and moral fabric as well. Women, especially lower-class women living in Beijing’s tenement neighborhoods, were among those most affected by these upheavals. Delving into testimonies from criminal case files, Zhao Ma explores intimate accounts of lower-class women’s struggles with poverty, deprivation, and marital strife. By uncovering the set of everyday tactics that women devised and utilized in their personal efforts to cope with predatory policies and crushing poverty, this book reveals an urban underworld that was built on an informal economy and conducted primarily through neighborhood networks. Where necessary, women relied on customary practices, hierarchical patterns of household authority, illegitimate relationships, and criminal entrepreneurship to get by. Women’s survival tactics, embedded in and reproduced by their everyday experience, opened possibilities for them to modify the male-dominated city and, more importantly, allowed women to subtly deflect, subvert, and “escape without leaving” powerful forces such as the surveillance state, reformist discourse, and revolutionary politics during and beyond wartime Beijing.
和Janet Chen相比,這本主要挖掘法律卷宗中「逃跑妻子」的故事,放置於社會背景之中,從女性角度出發,認爲包括逃跑、家庭工坊甚至是性交易,都是下層女性不得不運用的生存策略。女性是面對着不平等的,但她們並不完全是被動的,她們也懂得利用社會加於男性之上的責任爲自己的逃跑開脫。
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Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937-1949 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书