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发表于2024-05-14
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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.
Forty years ago, China enacted the one-child policy, only recently relaxed. Among many other unintended consequences, it resulted in both an enormous gender imbalance—with a predicted twenty million more men than women of marriage age by 2020—and China's first generations of only-daughters. Given the resources normally reserved for boys, these girls were pushed to study, excel in college, and succeed in careers, as if they were sons.
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.
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.
Whether that means being able to decide where or what to study, whom, when, or if to marry, whether or not to have children, or how to best define and achieve that ever-elusive ideal of “having it all,” the population of women taking bolder steps to map out more fulfilling lives is expanding. So must the conversation.
评分在早晨的太阳下,微风温暖略凉,树上小鸟叽叽喳喳下,打开了蔡健雅的《红色高跟鞋》,“你像窝在被子里的舒服”,读完一本看了很久的书是一件非常惬意的事情。最最精彩的是后面几章,作者对比了,日韩,越南泰国,中东,非洲莫赞比亚等,对于那里的女性现状描述分析很是吸引人。就像作者最后说的 永远支持中国,但是男女性不平等,思想观念的不转变,中国很难进入下一个高度!值得有时间再看一遍!
评分Whether that means being able to decide where or what to study, whom, when, or if to marry, whether or not to have children, or how to best define and achieve that ever-elusive ideal of “having it all,” the population of women taking bolder steps to map out more fulfilling lives is expanding. So must the conversation.
评分叙述有些乱,但是很多情节画面感很强,父母子女间的对话。另一种角度。
评分Whether that means being able to decide where or what to study, whom, when, or if to marry, whether or not to have children, or how to best define and achieve that ever-elusive ideal of “having it all,” the population of women taking bolder steps to map out more fulfilling lives is expanding. So must the conversation.
我是在2018年春节去加州旅行时偶然走进旧金山的一家小书店看到了当天晚上有关于中国剩女的读书分享会,于是当晚折回书店参加。本来以为可能是留美华人,后来发现作者竟然是位美国记者。交流中发现作者不仅中文流利,法语更好,西班牙语就更别说了。回来查了更多资料才知道,作...
评分在经济飞速发展的时代,人们在满足物质富裕的同时,婚姻问题却成了男女青年们最大的隐痛。如何在男女比例失调的当代社会找到适合自己的另一半?又如何在男性竞争者占据优势的社会中如鱼得水,风生水起,过上有尊严的生活?这都是中国女性面临的社会问题。 中国剩女面临的社会压...
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