Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women.(Review) (book review)

Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women. By China Kwan Lee. California: University of California Press, 1998. 210 pp. ISBN 0-520-21127-8, $16.95 (paper).

Gender and the South China Miracle is a rich comparative study of gender in two factories across the disciplines of sociological ethnography, labor relations, and women's studies. The book examines a Hong Kong-based enterprise, Liton. Pressured by labor shortages in Hong Kong and the relatively cheap labor in China, Liton moved part of its production to Xixiang (a town within Shenzhen) in 1986. Despite the ...

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