Paperback • 2022 • English

Dreams of Flight The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West

Name: Dreams of Flight The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West
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By Fran Martin

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About the book

In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single-child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as professional human capital through international education, molding themselves into independent, cosmopolitan, career-oriented individuals. On the other, strong neotraditionalist state, social, and familial pressures of the post-Mao era push them ba...Show more

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9781478017615

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published year

2022

Language

English

Original title

Dreams of Flight The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West

Format

Paperback

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