Rethinking gender, migration, and power : the emergence of a disciplinary order in contemporary China

Since its implementation in 1958, the household registration system in China has been powerful state institution to determine rural peasants’ mobility to urban areas. For more than two decades, rural-to-urban mobility had been stifled. It was not until the post-Mao regime initiated economic reforms...

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Main Author: Feng, Lisi
Language:English
Published: 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/17635