Factory Girls meets The Vagina Monologues in this fascinating narrative on China's single women—and why they could be the source of its economic future.
Now living in an economic powerhouse, enough of these women have decided to postpone marriage—or not marry at all—to spawn a label: "leftovers." Unprecedentedly well-educated and goal-oriented, they struggle to find partners in...
Factory Girls meets The Vagina Monologues in this fascinating narrative on China's single women—and why they could be the source of its economic future.
Now living in an economic powerhouse, enough of these women have decided to postpone marriage—or not marry at all—to spawn a label: "leftovers." Unprecedentedly well-educated and goal-oriented, they struggle to find partners in a society where gender roles have not evolved as vigorously as society itself, and where new professional opportunities have made women less willing to compromise their careers or concede to marriage for the sake of being wed. Further complicating their search for a mate, the vast majority of China's single men reside in and are tied to the rural areas where they were raised. This makes them geographically, economically, and educationally incompatible with city-dwelling 「leftovers,」 who also face difficulty in partnering with urban men, given the urban men's general preference for more dutiful, domesticated wives.
Part critique of China's paternalistic ideals, part playful portrait of the romantic travails of China's trailblazing women and their well-meaning parents who are anxious to see their daughters snuggled into traditional wedlock, Roseann Lake's Leftover in China focuses on the lives of four individual women against a backdrop of colorful anecdotes, hundreds of interviews, and rigorous historical and demographic research to show how these "leftovers" are the linchpin to China's future.
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Roseann Lake is The Economist's Cuba correspondent. She was previously based in Beijing, where she worked for five years as a television reporter and journalist. Her China coverage has appeared in Foreign Policy, Time, The Atlantic, Salon, and Vice, among others. She lives between New York City and Havana.
In China, little girls grow up hearing the phrase “It’s better to marry well than to study well,” Zhang Mei once explained to me during a lesson. “But that’s a very foolish thing to think and a very dangerous way to live.” (查看原文)
“In retrospect, this makes perfect sense. For a Chinese man of Dr. X’s standing—well off, well connected, well educated, and well into his fifties—a mistress (or two, or three) is practically a requirement. But when I first met him—still only in my salad days of understanding the dynamics of extramarital relations in China—his ideas and observations seemed extraordinary, if not completely farfetched. “If a man in China doesn’t have a mistress, it’s because his economic situation doesn’t allow for it,” he announced, as casually and assuredly as if he were reporting the latest figures for China’s GDP. “And if a very successful man doesn’t have a mistress, his wife will be puzzled as to why he doesn’t.” (查看原文)
Cliche, cliche and more cliche. Just because the author knows more abt China than the rest of the average Westerners doesnt justify her bigger ignorance. Too bad to see she still puts her observation ...Cliche, cliche and more cliche. Just because the author knows more abt China than the rest of the average Westerners doesnt justify her bigger ignorance. Too bad to see she still puts her observation abt China under the western microscope. (展开)
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1 有用 Y门食客 2019-04-22 05:12:50
写作技能较差，遣词造句能力一般，主旨不清晰，逻辑性很差，多数时候，罗列了许多资料，却并没有指明其目的为何。提到了许多东西，但又都是浮光掠影而过，深度分析不够。没什么新鲜有趣的观点，都是别人翻来覆去讲过很多次的老梗。算不上学术研究吧。如果这真的是学术研究，那真是奇差无比了。
0 有用 不是小王 2020-09-26 06:13:27
0 有用 #锦二爷# 2019-10-22 14:56:35
今年读的书里最合我胃口的一本，关于中国剩女的科普向读物，作为一个为外国人，我觉得难得写的非常客观，分析的相当到位了，对我来说，没有涉及到的方面可能就是农村妇女的境况。最后关于东亚三国的分析也很棒，东亚三国对女性态度一丘之貉。我觉得特别适合男性阅读，虽然不能切身体会中国女性面临的困境，也能从这本书里稍微窥见一些。以前西方女权运动从来没有撼动过东亚，但从米兔开始，韩国女性的protest，日本的伊藤诗... 今年读的书里最合我胃口的一本，关于中国剩女的科普向读物，作为一个为外国人，我觉得难得写的非常客观，分析的相当到位了，对我来说，没有涉及到的方面可能就是农村妇女的境况。最后关于东亚三国的分析也很棒，东亚三国对女性态度一丘之貉。我觉得特别适合男性阅读，虽然不能切身体会中国女性面临的困境，也能从这本书里稍微窥见一些。以前西方女权运动从来没有撼动过东亚，但从米兔开始，韩国女性的protest，日本的伊藤诗织，到中国的米兔大事记，竟让我期待有生之年东亚女性的崛起 (展开)
2 有用 哈哈婧 2018-07-03 05:13:06
一个美国人对中国“适婚”年龄女性群体所面临的困境的观察和思考 值得一读
4 有用 愿梦想成真 2020-02-08 11:52:25
Cliche, cliche and more cliche. Just because the author knows more abt China than the rest of the average Westerners doesnt justify her bigger ignorance. Too bad to see she still puts her observation ... Cliche, cliche and more cliche. Just because the author knows more abt China than the rest of the average Westerners doesnt justify her bigger ignorance. Too bad to see she still puts her observation abt China under the western microscope. (展开)