Chinese Student Migration, Gender and Family (Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective)

This book explores the children of Chinese single-child families who go to study abroad and in particular the increase in Chinese familial investment in daughters' education within the wider socio-moral transformation of China. "Cover" -- "Contents" -- "List of Tables" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "1 Introduction" -- "Migration and the patrilineal family" -- "Migrant subjectivities" -- "Chinese cosmopolitans" -- "Transnational field" -- "Central characters" -- "Structure of the book" -- "2 Affected Mobility" -- "The self, the family and the state" -- "The caring subject" -- "The enterprising subject" -- "The desiring subject" -- "Conclusion" -- "3 Cosmopolitical Education" -- "International education market" -- "Destination country policies" -- "Chinese student migration" -- "The push factors of the Chinese education system" -- "Graduate job market" -- "Conclusion" -- "4 Migrant Journeys" -- "Why study abroad?" -- "Personal characteristics" -- "Family background" -- "Shifting social location" -- "Affect and the cosmopolitan project" -- "Gender and mobility" -- "Conclusion" -- "5 Leftover Women" -- "Béarn bachelors and Chinese leftover women" -- "Good wives, good husbands" -- "Love" -- "Sex" -- "Compromises" -- "Non-compliance" -- "Dating and marrying non-Chinese" -- "Conclusion" -- "6 Cosmopolitan Lives" -- "Luluâ#x80;#x99;s cosmopolitan mastery" -- "Jonatan â#x80;#x93; Mobility and shifting hierarchies" -- "Nicole â#x80;#x93; Family across distance" -- "Conclusion" -- "7 Being the First to Get Rich" -- "Crossing the fuzzy borders" -- "New life, new reference group" -- "In the web of care" -- "In the web of affect" -- "Conclusion" -- "8 Conclusion â#x80;#x93; Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Power in the Chinese Family" -- "Appendix" -- "Glossary" -- "Notes" -- "References" "Chinese Student Migration, Gender and Family is a study of the sons and daughters of Chinese single-child families who go abroad to study and in particular explores the increase of familial investment in daughters' education within the wider socio-moral transformation of China. The relationships of support in the family are renegotiated, and lines of generational and gendered power are changing. While this generation of young women have been raised in an environment that fosters individual achievement and competition, they must eventually find their place in the marriage and job markets that are highly gendered. Women are directed towards less demanding career paths and are wary of becoming 'too successful' to marry. Both female and male student migrants draw from their cosmopolitan experiences and resources when negotiating these tensions. Through their individual journeys of migration, they are at the forefront of the current transformation of the Chinese symbolic markets"-- Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction....Pages 1-19 Affected Mobility....Pages 20-45 Cosmopolitical Education....Pages 46-72 Migrant Journeys....Pages 73-99 Leftover Women....Pages 100-124 Cosmopolitan Lives....Pages 125-145 Being the First to Get Rich....Pages 146-166 Conclusion — Women’s Power in the Chinese Family....Pages 167-173 Back Matter....Pages 174-194