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.
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.
我是在2018年春节去加州旅行时偶然走进旧金山的一家小书店看到了当天晚上有关于中国剩女的读书分享会,于是当晚折回书店参加。本来以为可能是留美华人,后来发现作者竟然是位美国记者。交流中发现作者不仅中文流利,法语更好,西班牙语就更别说了。回来查了更多资料才知道,作...
评分我是在2018年春节去加州旅行时偶然走进旧金山的一家小书店看到了当天晚上有关于中国剩女的读书分享会,于是当晚折回书店参加。本来以为可能是留美华人,后来发现作者竟然是位美国记者。交流中发现作者不仅中文流利,法语更好,西班牙语就更别说了。回来查了更多资料才知道,作...
评分这本书很有意思,与其说解释了为什么现在女性不愿意结婚,不如说是对一个时代冲击总结。这是一个外国人,以三个中国女性为主要采访目标,外加很多研究学者的探讨。 早在很早之前,蚕丝女就因为收入很高而不愿意结婚。而现在形式依然愈演愈烈。 有一点,其实所有关于生育尤其是...
评分“剩女”困境 最近几年,单身好像成为一种“罪过”。每逢节日,单身者总是受到来自社会各界的“关心”,尤其是那些大城市的适婚女性,同学朋友聚会上被问长问短,家中父母又安排相亲,打开电视也能看到爆火的相亲节目《非诚勿扰》,就连出去散步,公园里到处都是“相亲角”,简...
Whether that means being able to decide where or what to study, whom, when, or if to marry, whether or not to have children, or how to best define and achieve that ever-elusive ideal of “having it all,” the population of women taking bolder steps to map out more fulfilling lives is expanding. So must the conversation.
评分Cliche, cliche and more cliche. Just because the author knows more abt China than the rest of the average Westerners doesnt justify her bigger ignorance. Too bad to see she still puts her observation abt China under the western microscope.
评分虽然叙述的故事线有点乱,但是其中的一些观点很不错,作者的文笔也真的棒。
评分Wonder why educated and independent women are ‘left behind’ in China? Wanna know where will it take women and China’s economics? This book is a must read. From an outsider perspective, Roseanne Lake reveals the underlying growing knowledge economy and the conflicts between traditional cultures and modernization.
评分还挺不错的 书透过剩女这个现象探讨了很多很广的社会问题 还横向比较了亚洲其他国家的生育率低下和女性地位的问题
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