Fran Martin

Dreams of Flight

The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West

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Produktbeschreibung

Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad, between expectations of fulfilling traditional roles as wife and mother versus becoming highly educated and cosmopolitan career-oriented individuals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9781478017615
• ISBN-10: 1478017619
• Artikelnr.: 61644926

Autorenporträt

Fran Martin is Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne, author of Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary, and coauthor of Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia, both also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: After Mobility?  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction: Worlds in Motion  1
1. Before Study: Dreams of Flight  35
2. Place: Welcome to Melvillage  57
3. Media: Connection and Encapsulation  97
4. Work: Emplacement, Mobility, and Value  128
5. Sexuality: Liminal Times  161
6. Faith: Spirits of Movement  190
7. Patriotism: Feeling Global Chineseness  215
8. After Study: Moving On, Moving Up, Moving Out  247
Conclusion: Unsettled Dreams  279
Notes  297
Works Cited  311
Index  347