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
Summary
"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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-355) and index