In this analysis of three generations of women in a Chinese silk
factory, Lisa Rofel brilliantly interweaves the intimate details of
her observations with a broad-ranging critique of the meaning of
modernity in a postmodern age. The author based her study at a silk
factory in the city of Hangzhou in eastern China. She compares the
lives of three generations of women workers: those who entered the
factory right around the Communist revolution in 1949, those who
were youths during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s, and those
who have come of age in the Deng era. Exploring attitudes toward
work, marriage, society, and culture, she convincingly connects the
changing meanings of the modern in official discourse to the
stories women tell about themselves and what they make of their
lives. One of the first studies to take up theoretically
sophisticated issues about gender, modernity, and power based on a
solid ethnographic ground, this much-needed cross-generational
study will be a model for future anthropological work around the
world.
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