Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937-1949

Zhao Ma is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History and Culture at Washington University in St. Louis.

出版者:Harvard University Asia Center

作者:Zhao Ma

页数:320

出版时间:2015-9-28

价格:USD 49.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780674088382

丛书系列:The Harvard East Asian Monographs

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

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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.

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封面是赫达·莫里逊拍摄的西河沿东升客店与缝补妇女

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似乎是中国史里第一个用德塞图的，题目有点小

封面是赫达·莫里逊拍摄的西河沿东升客店与缝补妇女