Leftover in China : the women shaping the world's next superpower /
"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-daught...
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Ultrasound checks and imbalances
- "Golden turtles"
- Doors and windows
- Marriage and mortarboards
- Chickens and ducks
- Freedom and submission
- Higher callings
- Love, with Chinese characteristics
- Cars, houses, cash
- East meets West
- Bamboo ceilings
- The way forward
- Epilogue: New beginnings to happy endings.
