Gender, Modernity and Male Migrant Workers in China: Becoming a 'Modern' Man

By Xiaodong Lin

Examining Chinese male migrant workers' identity formation, this book explores their experience of rural-urban migration and their status as an emerging sector of a dislocated urban working class. It seeks to understand issues of gender and class through the rural migrant men's narratives within the context of China's modernization, and provides an in-depth analysis of how these men make sense of their new lives in the rapidly modernizing, post-Mao China with its emphasis on progress and development.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415626579
• ISBN13: 9780415626576
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"