Overview
- Explores how women are living single, creative lives in a Chinese city
- Considers the lives of these women holistically, taking into account their professional, social and intimate lives
- Engages with the fundamental issue of precarity, which configures the post-Fordian, contemporary condition of our lives
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society (PSGCS)
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“Chow Yiu Fai’s book … offers an interesting study of a special group of individuals in contemporary China: single women creative workers in Shanghai. … The intersectional approach to gender and creative work adopted, innovative and multiple methodology used, and non-Western ethnographic perspective make Caring in Times of Precarity a highly valuable contribution to current theorizations about creative labour.” (Jian Lin, China Information, Vol. 33 (3), November, 2019)
“This recently published book by Yiu Fai Chow nonetheless offers many exciting new perspectives … . Chow adopts a flexible and informant-oriented approach to define what creative work is. … Chow is successful in presenting to us a different reality of Chinese single women and creative workers … . This book is a good reminder for all of us to revisit the role of academic research and knowledge production in times of precarity.” (Lucetta Y. L. Kam, China Review International, Vol. 26 (4), 2019)
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Book Title: Caring in Times of Precarity
Book Subtitle: A Study of Single Women Doing Creative Work in Shanghai
Authors: Chow Yiu Fai
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76898-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76897-7Published: 21 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76898-4Published: 14 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2730-9282
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9290
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 345
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Culture and Gender, Asian Culture, Sociology of Work, Culture and Gender, Sociology of Culture