Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937-1949 / / Ma Zhao.

• Superior document: Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 384
• VerfasserIn: Zhao, Ma,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2015.; Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 384.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 366 pages :); illustrations, maps

"Explores intimate accounts of lower-class women's struggles with poverty, deprivation, and marital strife in wartime Beijing between 1936 and 1945, revealing an urban underworld built on an informal economy and conducted primarily through neighborhood networks"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Strategies of survival; Discovering women's voices; Beyond reformist narrative; Crossing political boundaries -- Part I. On the road -- Prologue: 1937 -- Making crime mobile -- Policing mobility -- Part II. In the neighborhood -- Prologue: 1938 -- City of newcomers -- Networks on the move -- Part III. In between marriages -- Prologue: 1944 -- In search of a livelihood -- Managing serial marriages -- Part IV. Under the red flag -- Prologue: 1949 -- Creating the socialist neighborhood -- Glossary.