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

Product Description: Examining the employment lives of Chinese women living under different government systems at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the contributors to this volume present an overview of factors affecting the employment status of women...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.

Product Description: This book presents significant new findings on new domains of employment for women in China's burgeoning market economy of the 1990s and the twenty-first century. Experts in gender, politics, media studies, and anthropology discuss the impact of economic reform and globalization on Chinese women in family businesses, management, the professions, the prostitution industry and domestic service...read more

Product Description: Women Migrant Workers in China's Economic Reform studies unmarried women migrant workers in China. As international migrants in China's richest province, they work in silk, one of China's oldest and most symbolically-charged industries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Since 1978, reform policies introduced in rural China have had a profound impact on women's work and gender divisions of labor. This book provides detailed information on the shifts in women's work patterns that have occurred. It explains how and why these shifts have come about, and how they relate to other aspects of women's position in society...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