Looking for Chengdu : : A Woman's Adventures in China / / Hill Gates.
For decades, anthropologist Hill Gates had waited for an opportunity to get to know the citizens of China as she had done in Taiwan—face to face, over an extended period of time. At last in the late 1980s she set out on an excursion to Sichuan Province. That visit was the first of many she would mak...
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Gates, Hill, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Looking for Chengdu : A Woman's Adventures in China / Hill Gates. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©1999 1 online resource (256 p.) : 2 maps, 21 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1. Facing China -- DECEMBER 1987- JANUARY 1988: Guangzhou, Wuzhou, Liuzhou, Kunming, Yunnan, The Burma Road, Lijiang, Dali, Chengdu -- 2. A Journey to the West -- 3. Mr. Su's Hometown -- 4. Eternal Spring -- 5. Competing with Mrs. Bishop -- SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER 1988: Chengdu, West Sichuan, Jiu Zhai Gou, Hongyuan, Chengdu -- 6. To Work -- 7. Ambient Atmospheres -- 8. Paying Calls -- 9. R and R in a Van -- 10. Yak Heaven -- 11. In Golden Cow -- 12. Getting It Wholesale -- 13. Weighing the Harvest -- 14. Finishing Touches -- JUNE 1989- NOVEMBER 1991 Stanford, Chengdu, Xiamen, Cambridge, Mt. Pleasant, Nankang, Chengdu, Ming Shan, Chengdu -- 15. Tiananmen in Chengdu -- 16. Finding My Feet -- 17. Roadwork -- 18. Still Looking -- NOVEMBER 1996 Shanghai, Chengdu -- 19. Coda restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star For decades, anthropologist Hill Gates had waited for an opportunity to get to know the citizens of China as she had done in Taiwan—face to face, over an extended period of time. At last in the late 1980s she set out on an excursion to Sichuan Province. That visit was the first of many she would make there on a remarkable double adventure: to gain a deeper understanding of Chinese women and to complete a difficult passage in her own life. Looking for Chengdu is her memoir of these trips. By turns analytic, witty, and bittersweet, Gates's observations on contemporary China are enlivened by a keen eye for the oddities of human behavior, including her own.The vast, inland province of Sichuan was the birthplace of the Chinese economic reforms of the 1970s, and is now speeding from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Was its economic boom transforming women's lives, Gates wondered? After a generation of socialist rule, would women risk the challenge of entrepreneurship? A feminist, she was especially curious to learn what Chinese of both sexes defined as women's rights.Gates traveled—by boat, train, bus, car, bicycle, and foot (her preference)—across the spectacular countryside, gleaning insight into China's massive bureaucracies from her experiences on an obligatory vacation, in a Tibetan dance-hall, and at a shouting match in her Chengdu home. She met dozens of hard-working, stylish women running family firms, and crossed paths with scholars and sailors. Her book is rich in anecdotes and compelling moments, from her journey through mountain villages in search of five thousand women with bound feet to low-voiced conversations about the Chengdu equivalent of the events at Tiananmen Square.A fascinating glimpse into the deeply personal vocation of anthropology, Gates's memoir will change the way readers think about the Chinese people. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Anthropology. Gender Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 9783110536171 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501721625 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501721625 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501721625/original |
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