‘We’re all trained to be good obedient children, but what do you want?’ Delving into the inner lives of women in neoliberal China - Pearls and Irritations

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‘We’re all trained to be good obedient children, but what do you want?’ Delving into the inner lives of women in neoliberal China

Written by Wanning Sun Yuan Yang is what migration academics call a “1.5 generation migrant” – meaning she was born in her country of origin and then migrated to another country as a child. She belongs, too, to what Chinese people call jiulinhou – the generation of people born in the 1990s. As a writer, she … Continue reading ‘We’re all trained to be good obedient children, but what do you want?’ Delving into the inner lives of women in neoliberal China