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Zhao Ma explores lower-class women's struggles with poverty, deprivation, and marital strife in Beijing from 1937 to 1949. He shows how the everyday survival tactics they devised allowed them to subtly deflect, subvert, and escape without leaving powerful forces such as the surveillance state, reformist discourse, and revolutionary politics.

Runaway Wives Urban Crimes and Survival Tactics

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      Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
      Publication Date: 28/09/2015
      ISBN13: 9780674088382, 978-0674088382
      ISBN10: 0674088387

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      Book Synopsis
      Zhao Ma explores lower-class women's struggles with poverty, deprivation, and marital strife in Beijing from 1937 to 1949. He shows how the everyday survival tactics they devised allowed them to subtly deflect, subvert, and escape without leaving powerful forces such as the surveillance state, reformist discourse, and revolutionary politics.

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