Titlebook: Revisiting Gender Inequality; Perspectives from th Qi Wang,Min Dongchao,Bo ?renlund S?rensen Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and Th

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Introduction,z at NIAS (the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies) in the spring of 2013. Dongchao had just been granted an EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship within the Seventh European Community Framework Programme and had moved to the NIAS in Copenhagen to start her two-year project titled “CrossCul

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,“Returning Home” or “Being Returned Home”?, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) gather together in Beijing for the Lianghui Meetings, generating an atmosphere of lively debate. Since International Women’s Day, March 8, falls during the two sessions of the meetings, the Chinese media always takes this opportunity to

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Labor Markets, Gender, and Social Stratification, gender into the equation, the current circumstances become even more complicated. The well-known sociologist Anthony Giddens has noted that “gender itself is one of the most profound examples of stratification. There are no societies in which men do not, in some aspects of social life, have more we

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Gender and Gendered Working Time Rights,oncern over female migrant workers (known as . in Chinese) in the beginning of the reform period. Some scholars claim that the post-colonial exploitation of female migrant workers was perpetrated by stealing these women’s “golden time”— the young-adult stage. Scholars like Pun Ngai (2005) have defin

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Urban New Poverty from a Gender Perspective,r social inequality and polarization in academic circles and in Chinese society at large. There are many facets to urban poverty, which has arisen out of China’s transition to a market economy, and in an attempt to capture the structural aspects of the development, Wang Chaoming and others began to

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Son Preference and the Tradition of Patriarchy in Rural China,overnment. Generally speaking, the sex ratio imbalance at birth is closely related to son preference, whereas son preference is often attributed to conservative thoughts and conventional customs. What is frequently overlooked is the deep-seated interplay between conservative thoughts, family traditi

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,Gender and Rural Crises in China’s Transition toward a Market Economy,n as the “three rural” crisis (the “three rural” refering to the countryside, agriculture, and peasants). Chinese peasants benefited from the economic reforms in the early reform period, but starting in the late 1980s, they began to face multiple serious problems, such as stagnating income, deterior

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,Village Women’s Participation in Local Public Affairs, Since the mid-1990s, activists in China have, with the help of funds from sources both domestic and from abroad, put great effort into training women to participate in village politics. The purpose has been both to improve and to demonstrate rural women’s ability to participate in local decision-ma