Runaway wives, urban crimes, and survival tactics in wartime Beijing, 1937-1949 /

"Explores intimate accounts of lower-class women's struggles with poverty, deprivation, and marital strife in wartime Beijing between 1936 and 1945, revealing an urban underworld built on an informal economy and conducted primarily through neighborhood networks"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ma, Zhao, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2015.
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 384.
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Online Access:CONNECT