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Dreams of Flight - The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West (Hardcover)
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Dreams of Flight - The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West (Hardcover)
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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 back toward
marriage and family by age thirty. Martin examines these women's
motivations for studying in Australia and traces their embodied and
emotional experiences of urban life, social media worlds, work in
low-skilled and professional jobs, romantic relationships,
religion, Chinese patriotism, and changed self-understanding after
study abroad. Martin illustrates how emerging forms of gender,
class, and mobility fundamentally transform the basis of identity
for a whole generation of Chinese women.
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