Gender, Modernity and Male Migrant Workers in China

Examining Chinese male migrant workers¿ identity formation, this book explores their experience of rural-urban migration and their status as an emerging sector of a dislocated urban working class. It seeks to understand issues of gender and class through the rural migrant men¿s narratives within the context of Chinäs modernization, and provides an in-depth analysis of how these men make sense of their new lives in the rapidly modernizing, post-Mao China with its emphasis on progress and development.