Rural-urban migration inside of China has reworked and reshaped rural people’s lives prior to now few many years, and has been the most noticeable phenomena of the commercial reforms enacted because the past due Nineteen Seventies. while Feminist students have addressed rural women’s adventure of fight and empowerment in city China, against this, learn on rural men’s adventure of migration is a missed sector of analysis. In reaction, this booklet seeks to handle the absence of male migrant staff as a gendered class in the present literature on rural-urban migration.

Examining chinese language male migrant staff’ identification formation, this ebook explores their event of rural-urban migration and their prestige as an rising area of a dislocated city operating type. It seeks to appreciate problems with gender and sophistication in the course of the rural migrant men’s narratives in the context of China’s modernization, and gives an in-depth research of the way those males make feel in their new lives within the swiftly modernizing, post-Mao China with its emphasis on growth and improvement. extra, this booklet makes use of the men’s personal narratives to problem the elite assumption that rural men’s low prestige is because of the their failure to undertake a contemporary city identification and way of life. Drawing on interviews with 28 male rural migrants, Xiaodong Lin unpacks the gender politics of chinese language males and masculinities, and in flip contributes to a better figuring out of worldwide masculinities in a global context.

This e-book may be of significant curiosity to scholars and students operating within the fields of chinese language tradition and society, gender experiences, migration stories, sociology and social anthropology.

Shortlisted for this year's BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.