Dreams of Flight
The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West
1st Edition
Published on 8. November 2021
368 pages
978-1-4780-2222-0 (ISBN)
Description
Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad, between expectations of fulfilling traditional roles as wife and mother versus becoming highly educated and cosmopolitan career-oriented individuals.
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Fran Martin is Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne, author of Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary, and coauthor of Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia, both also published by Duke University Press.
Content
Preface: After Mobility? ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Worlds in Motion 1
1. Before Study: Dreams of Flight 35
2. Place: Welcome to Melvillage 57
3. Media: Connection and Encapsulation 97
4. Work: Emplacement, Mobility, and Value 128
5. Sexuality: Liminal Times 161
6. Faith: Spirits of Movement 190
7. Patriotism: Feeling Global Chineseness 215
8. After Study: Moving On, Moving Up, Moving Out 247
Conclusion: Unsettled Dreams 279
Notes 297
Works Cited 311
Index 347
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Worlds in Motion 1
1. Before Study: Dreams of Flight 35
2. Place: Welcome to Melvillage 57
3. Media: Connection and Encapsulation 97
4. Work: Emplacement, Mobility, and Value 128
5. Sexuality: Liminal Times 161
6. Faith: Spirits of Movement 190
7. Patriotism: Feeling Global Chineseness 215
8. After Study: Moving On, Moving Up, Moving Out 247
Conclusion: Unsettled Dreams 279
Notes 297
Works Cited 311
Index 347
