| Chinese urban poor older people's life: An agentic approach Contributor(s): Xu, Jing (Author) |
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ISBN: 3034311176 ISBN-13: 9783034311175 Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P OUR PRICE: $86.08 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Demography - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Social Work |
| Dewey: 305.26 |
| LCCN: 2012010652 |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.63 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book paints a picture of poor older people's life-worlds in Beijing, China. Instead of viewing them as pitiful recipients of vulnerabilities and deprivations, this book sheds light on how poor older people exert their active agency to live through their life difficulties - i.e. how they negotiate resources within and outside of family to pursue the kind of lives they have reason to value. Based on a prolonged period of ethnographic fieldwork in Beijing, the researcher highlights the experiences, perspectives, and strategies of these people developed in the context of their economic hardships against the background of massive social reform and demographic ageing in China. |