Caring in Times of Precarity A Study of Single Women Doing Creative Work in Shanghai /

• Main Author: Yiu Fai, Chow (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society
• Subjects: Culture.; Gender.; Ethnology-Asia.; Industrial sociology.; Culture and Gender.; Asian Culture.; Sociology of Work.; Sociology of Culture.

Caring in Times of Precarity draws together two key cultural observations: the increase in those living a single life, and the growing attraction of creative careers. Straddling this historical juncture, the book focuses on one particular group of 'precariat': single women in Shanghai in v...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Living on my own, creatively, precariously
• Chapter 2: Living with their own images
• Chapter 3: Living with a generation - qilinghou, balinghou, jiulinghou
• Chapter 4: Balancing work/life?
• Chapter 5: To love, to live
• Chapter 6: Living with us - the case of Kunqu
• Chapter 7: Living with the city
• Chapter 8: Living with themselves, creating themselves
• Chapter 9: Epilogue.