Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West

Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West
ISBN-10
1478017619
ISBN-13
9781478017615
Series
Dreams of Flight
Category
Education
Pages
368
Language
English
Published
2021-12-31
Author
Fran Martin

Description

Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad, between expectations of fulfilling traditional roles as wife and mother versus becoming highly educated and cosmopolitan career-oriented individuals.

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