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CHINA'S LEFT-BEHIND WIVES: FAMILIES OF MIGRANTS FROM By Huifen Shen

Description: InChina's Left-Behind Wives,Huifen Shen tells the extraordinary story of an overlooked group of women who played an important role in one of the largest waves of migration in history. For roughly a century starting around 1850, large numbers of young men from southern China travelled to Southeast Asia in search of work. Some were married and others returned to marry, but they routinely left their wives in China to handle family affairs. Drawing on in-depth interviews, archival materials, local gazetteers, newspapers and periodicals, the author describes the experiences of left-behind wives in the Quanzhou region of Fujian from the 1930s to the 1050s, a time when war and political change caused customary practices to break down. Migrant marriages were nearly always arranged, and girls rarely met their husbands before the wedding. Normally a bride lived with her new husband for just a few weeks or months, after which he went abroad. The circumstances in the 1940s and 1950s were such that many of these young women rarely, or never, saw their husbands again. When the Pacific War cut off communications, the loss of remittance money meant that they faced a difficult struggle for survival. The war's end brought a brief respite, but the communist ascendency led to further difficult adjustments. Ultimately, the experiences of the left-behind wives drew them into public life and business, and as Overseas Chinese policies, and attitudes towards women, changed in China, they came to play an increasingly significant part in the processes of development and modernization.

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Book Title: China's Left-Behind Wives: Families of Migrants from Fujian to

Subject: History, Asian Studies

Item Height: 9.25 inches

ISBN-10: 0824837347

Educational Level: Adult & Further Education

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Item Length: 9in

Item Width: 6in

Author: Huifen Shen

Publication Name: China's Left-Behind Wives : Families of Migrants from Fujian to Southeast Asia, 1930s-1950s

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Publication Year: 2012

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 16 Oz

Number of Pages: 282 Pages

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