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Article: Looking for Chengdu: a woman's adventures in China.(Review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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GATES, HILL. Looking for Chengdu: a woman's adventures in China. x, 246 pp., illus. London, Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1999. [pound]32.50 (cloth), [pound]12.95 (paper)
This book, a memoir-travelogue of sorts, was written by the distinguished anthropologist of Taiwan and China, Hill Gates. It primarily covers her experiences while conducting a large research project in Chengdu (Sichuan province) during the late 1980s. Suffering is a recurrent theme. But the project was undeniably an interesting and important one. Gates had previously studied the involvement of Taiwanese women in small businesses, and in the post-Mao era of economic reforms the same topic could ...