作者：RoseannLake
出版社：W.W.Norton&Company
副标题：TheWomenShapingtheWorld’sNextSuperpower
出版年：2018-2-13
页数：288
定价：USD26.95
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780393254631
内容简介
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Factory Girls meets The Vagina Monologues in this fascinating narrative on China’s single women—and why they could be the source of its economic future.
Forty years ago, China enacted the one-child policy, only recently relaxed. Among many other unintended consequences, it resulted in both an enormous gender imbalance—with a predicted twenty million more men than women of marriage age by 2020—and China’s first generations of only-daughters. Given the resources normally reserved for boys, these girls were pushed to study, excel in college, and succeed in careers, as if they were sons.
Now living in an economic powerhouse, enough of these women have decided to postpone marriage—or not marry at all—to spawn a label: “leftovers.” Unprecedentedly well-educated and goal-oriented, they struggle to find partners in a society where gender roles have not evolved as vigorously as society itself, and where new professional opportunities have made women less willing to compromise their careers or concede to marriage for the sake of being wed. Further complicating their search for a mate, the vast majority of China’s single men reside in and are tied to the rural areas where they were raised. This makes them geographically, economically, and educationally incompatible with city-dwelling 「leftovers,」 who also face difficulty in partnering with urban men, given the urban men’s general preference for more dutiful, domesticated wives.
Part critique of China’s paternalistic ideals, part playful portrait of the romantic travails of China’s trailblazing women and their well-meaning parents who are anxious to see their daughters snuggled into traditional wedlock, Roseann Lake’s Leftover in China focuses on the lives of four individual women against a backdrop of colorful anecdotes, hundreds of interviews, and rigorous historical and demographic research to show how these “leftovers” are the linchpin to China’s future.
作者简介
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Roseann Lake is The Economist’s Cuba correspondent. She was previously based in Beijing, where she worked for five years as a television reporter and journalist. Her China coverage has appeared in Foreign Policy, Time, The Atlantic, Salon, and Vice, among others. She lives between New York City and Havana.
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叙述有些乱，但是很多情节画面感很强，父母子女间的对话。另一种角度。
用选择性数据支撑自己的逻辑，没有数据就用个人见闻和故事试图描述社会现象，无聊至极。
老生常谈, 竟然是访谈合集，不过是换种语言来支持人竟皆知的论点罢了。从相亲到同妻到女性教育到普世期待，都像Lit review。作者没有分享insight，实在鸡肋。
今年读的书里最合我胃口的一本，关于中国剩女的科普向读物，作为一个为外国人，我觉得难得写的非常客观，分析的相当到位了，对我来说，没有涉及到的方面可能就是农村妇女的境况。最后关于东亚三国的分析也很棒，东亚三国对女性态度一丘之貉。我觉得特别适合男性阅读，虽然不能切身体会中国女性面临的困境，也能从这本书里稍微窥见一些。以前西方女权运动从来没有撼动过东亚，但从米兔开始，韩国女性的protest，日本的伊藤诗…
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