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the countryside and to come to the city, and the images of these migrants in the media. Although
Solinger found "carelessness" and a tendency to rely on "vague words" such "few" and "in general," she found that "overall this volume stands as an excellent summation ... and is filled with insightful comments, if not encased within an overarching framework."
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in basic
English," or authors may take space limitations "as a pretext not merely for simplifying controversial issues, but for presenting only one side of them." Davin, however avoids both of these temptations: "she writes clearly, evoking the complexity of events and Mao's response to them without hiding her own views."
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women. Davin, Hershatter continued, acknowledged the great changes brought about by the new "Party-state", and described the contradictions between the reformist
Marriage Law and the realities of its results; women in the countryside were also caught between economic independence and their continued fixed place in
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wrote that the book was "more for the initiate than for the specialist," but "rich with observations and covers every major topic that touches on internal geographical movement in China since the late 1970s," including the demographic traits of the migrants, state policies, the reason farmers leave
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both praised and criticized her 1997 biography, noting that Davin's target audience was those "without a prior knowledge of
Chinese affairs". He said that writers of brief studies like hers often assume that "because the reader belongs to the uninitiated, he or she is also a semi-literate and write
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families. The book, said
Hershatter, "effectively laid out an agenda for much of the subsequent scholarship on women in the Mao years". John Gittings wrote that the book went "far beyond the stereotypes offered both by the communist regime and its critics" and that it probed the "tensions between a
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called the work "classic". She explained that the book followed policies from the 1930s until 1949, but spent the most time and detailed analysis on the 1950s. Chapters treated the Women's
Federation, marriage reform, the effects of land reform and collectivization on women, and the lives of urban
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in the context of
Chinese history and culture." By contrast, Schram continued, the chapters on Mao as the ruler of China "deal subtly but forcefully with all the major issues." She puts blame where blame is due: Mao bears a heavy responsibility for one of the great disasters in human history"
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Davin's interests in women's lives extended to other fields. Her 1992 article, "British Women
Missionaries in Nineteenth Century China" examined women whose lives were supposed to take place only in home and family. It looked at their China careers, their effect as role models, and their own
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with a taste for killing', while recognising that his flawed and contradictory character brought great harm to China..." The scholar Gregor Benton commented that sometimes "resisting a jumbo-history doesn't necessarily produce a compelling focus and can lapse at worst into patronizing
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to New
Zealand gave me an interest in the forces that drive people to leave their homes and families in search of a living elsewhere, and a sympathy with the struggles and sufferings of migrants everywhere." Dorothy Solinger in
114:(9 June 1944 – 13 October 2016) was a writer and lecturer on Chinese society and particularly Chinese women's stories. She was one of the first foreign scholars to consider the impact of the policies of the
523:'Population Policy and Reform: the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China' in Shirin Rai et al (eds). Women in the Face of Change: the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China. London: Routledge, 1992.
463:'Marriage Migration In China: The Enlargement Of Marriage Markets In The Era Of Market Reforms' in Rajni Palriwala and Patricia Uberoi (eds) Marriage Migration and Gender. New Delhi: Sage, 2008.
326:(p. 69) and the Cultural Revolution claimed victim after victim, leaving Mao "heavily reliant on sycophants and incompetents as he himself grew older and less competent." (p. 77)
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period of Mao's career, in which Davin did not mention the single most important theme, that unlike the
International Faction, who had parroted the Marxist dogma they learned in the
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until 1965. She described her students there in a letter home as "very serious about their work but a gaiety which saves them from being priggish." Her friend, the China specialist
125:, where she became a chaired professor. She was also head of the Department of East Asian Studies and deputy head of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. Before going to
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simplification," but that in this case "a broader picture remains unremittingly central, though not at a cost of nuance and some speculative reflection."
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called the essays, though written when the policy was relatively new, "a timely review of the policy's origins, problems, and prospects."
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