CHINESE URBAN POOR OLDER PEOPLE'S LIFE by Jing Xu ( 9783034311175 )

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Title:

CHINESE URBAN POOR OLDER PEOPLE'S LIFE
AN AGENTIC APPROACH

By:

Jing Xu

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

3034311176

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9783034311175

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Publisher:

PETER LANG AG, INTERNATIONALER VERLAG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN

Pub. date:

30 April, 2012

Pages:

232

Description:

Chinese urban poor older people's life

Synopsis:

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.

Publication:

Switzerland

Imprint:

Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

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