PREFACE		ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS		xi
Introduction GAIL E. HENDERSON AND BARBARA ENTWISLE		1
PART ONE · PERSPECTIVES ON WORK
1.	Work and Household in Chinese Culture: Historical Perspectives SUSAN MANN	15
2.	Re-Drawing the Boundaries of Work: Views on the Meaning of Work (Gongzuo) GAIL E. HENDERSON, BARBARA ENTWISLE, LI YING, YANG MINGLIANG, XU SIYUAN, AND ZHAI FENGYING	33
3.	What Is Work? Comparative Perspectives from the Social Sciences RACHEL A. ROSENFELD	51
4.	The Changing Meanings of Work in China STEVAN HARRELL	67
PART TWO · RECENT TRENDS IN GENDER AND INEQUALITY
5.	Local Meanings of Gender and Work in Rural Shaanxi in the 1950s GAIL HERSHATTER	79
6.	Iron Girls Revisited: Gender and the Politics of Work in the Cultural Revolution, 1966–76 EMILY HONIG	97
7.	Wage and Job Inequalities in the Working Lives of Men and Women in Tianjin YANJIE BIAN, JOHN R. LOGAN, AND XIAOLING SHU	111
8.	Gender Differentials in Economic Success: Rural China in 1991 ETHAN MICHELSON AND WILLIAM L. PARISH	134
9.	The Perils of Assessing Trends in Gender Inequality in China MARTIN KING WHYTE	157
PART THREE · GENDER AND MIGRATION
10.	The Interplay of Gender, Space, and Work in China's Floating Population LI ZHANG	171
11.	Interconnections among Gender, Work, and Migration: Evidence from Zhejiang Province XIUSHI YANG	197
12.	Migration, Gender, and Labor Force in Hubei Province, 1985–1990 SIDNEY GOLDSTEIN, ZAI LIANG, AND ALICE GOLDSTEIN	214
13.	Gendered Migration and the Migration of Genders in Contemporary China WANG FENG	231
PART FOUR · HOUSEHOLDS AND WORK
14.	Reconfiguring Shanghai Households DEBORAH S. DAVIS	245
15.	Household Economies in Transitional Times BARBARA ENTWISLE, SUSAN E. SHORT, ZHAI FENGYING, AND MA LINMAO	261
16.	Understanding the Social Inequality System and Family and Household Dynamics in China NAN LIN	284
Conclusion: Re-Drawing Boundaries BARBARA ENTWISLE AND GAIL E. HENDERSON		295
GLOSSARY OF CHINESE TERMS		305
REFERENCES		307
CONTRIBUTORS		333
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