Offers an approach to perceptive listening and introduces musical elements, forms, stylistic periods, and discussions of composers' lives.

Product Description: This book examines the dynamics of power within the families of married women who have migrated from rural areas to China's Dalian Economic Zone.  Engaging the question of whether waged work gives women power in their families, this ethnographic study finds that women do indeed use their new positions and urban status to negotiate their family status...read more

Since 1963 a series of ITV programmes - one every seven years - has followed a group of people from a variety of backgrounds, to see how they have changed and developed at different stages of their lives. The first programme was called "7 Up" and this book ties in with "35 Up", which features 14 of the original 20 people. It examines what it is like to be 35 years old. Do people feel that life is just beginning, or is it already too late to achieve anything? Where would they like to be in another seven years' time, personally and professionally? These are some of the questions put to 14 very different people, providing insights into their hopes, fears, ambitions and opinions.

An ethnography of a new electronics factory in southern China, showing how rural girls are made into compliant factory workers.

When China embarked on its rural economic reforms in the early 1980s, changes for women were not a planned part of its program for economic development, in the countryside or in the nation at large.In the late 1980s the official arm of the Chinese women's movement, the Women's Federations, began experimenting with a series of strategies designed to position women in the mainstream of the reform-era economy. A distinctive feature of this initiative was its focus on "quality" (suzhi), including literacy, general education, and practical technical training, and extending to a general effort to strengthen women's place in the market. The state's official women's movement had paradoxically become the major champion and architect of rural Chinese women's turn toward the market economy.This book examines in detail how the women's movement strategy was developed and implemented in one village in the northern Chinese province of Shandong, exploring the multiple meanings of the discourse on quality and the creation of a uniquely Chinese gender-and-development policy. The author explores several dimensions of this strategy: the promotion of education and training, the building of an organizational base for the rural women's movement, and the expansion of women's involvement in market competition. The author broadens the scope of the book by comparing similar strategies pursued in urban women's organizations in Shandong in the 1990s. (view table of contents)

Product Description: What has been the impact of the socialist market economy on the circumstances of women's lives today? This collection presents original research on a range of key topics: women and politics, gender and migration, the effect of new employment relations in industry and agriculture, women's role in the household and attitudes to the one-child family, and the development of women's studies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Since 1963 a series of ITV programmes - one every seven years - has followed a group of people from a variety of backgrounds, to see how they have changed and developed at different stages of their lives. The first programme was called "7 Up" and this book ties in with "35 Up", which features 14 of the original 20 people...read more

The Communist revolution promised Chinese women an end to thousands of years of subjugation, an equality with men in all matters legal, political, social, and economic. This book examines the extent to which this promise has been kept. Based on nearly a year of field research and interviews with over 300 women in six widely separated rural and urban areas, it gives us a vivid picture of Chinese women today - their day-to-day lives, their views of the present, and their hopes for the future. To date nothing approximating equality has been achieved: in working conditions, in pay, in educational opportunity. In the cities, and to a lesser extent in the countryside, women are better off than in pre-revolutionary China. But nowhere except in the rhetoric of the regime are they equal to men. Nor does the immediate future look much brighter, given the continuing social constraints, the government's controversial family limitation program, and the nature of the new economic policies introduced in 1980. So far as possible, the women interviewed are allowed to speak for themselves. Some take refuge behind government slogans, some are shy or wary, but a surprising number are quick to give their own opinions despite an ever-present government cadre. These opinions, combined with the author's astute observations on their local and national context, add up to a wholly new perspective on an all too familiar problem.