Shao Hua Liu: 2 books
Women and Gender in Contemporary Chinese Societies
Beyond Han Patriarchy
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Recent attention to historical, geographic, and class differences in the studies of women and gender in China has expanded our understanding of the diversity and complexity of gendered China. Nevertheless, the ethnic dimension of this subject matter remains largely overlooked, particularly concerning...
Passage to Manhood
Youth Migration, Heroin, and AIDS in Southwest China
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Passage to Manhood addresses the intersection of modernity, heroin use, and HIV/AIDS as they are embodied in a new rite-of-passage among young men in the Sichuan province of southwestern China. Through a nuanced analysis of the Nuosu population, this book seeks to answer why the Nuosu has a disproportionately...