Essays about: "women in china"

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1. 21. Engaging with female stand-up comedians in Rock & Roast 3 : Genres, Gender and Women’s humor

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

   Author : Wen Zhao; [2021]
   Keywords : Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This research bears the research gaps of Chinese stand-up comedy and female stand-up comedians in mind, aiming to contribute to the lesser researched field of Chinese female stand-up comedy. Audience research is the bedrock of this research which sheds light on how audiences define, interpret and evaluate the genre of stand-up comedy and female stand-up comedy. READ MORE

3. 22. Women Hold Up Half the Sky - A case study on how professional women in contemporary Shanghai negotiate the contradictions between intergenerational obligations and career development

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Nicole Skoglund; [2020]
   Keywords : Intergenerational obligations; filial piety; desiring self; career women; leftover women; demography; China; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The Chinese party state has taken the initiative to exercise control over the nation’s population in order to align with family policy and goals for national development. As a result, the negatively loaded stereotype “leftover women” has deeply penetrated Chinese society where single, urban and educated Chinese women have been the main targets. READ MORE

4. 23. The Uyghurs of China: A Genocide in the Making - Tracking the Stages of Genocide

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Henrietta Störig; [2020]
   Keywords : China; Uyghur; ethnic groups; historical process research; genocide; identity;

   Abstract : Recent reports on the forced sterilization of Uyghur women in the People’s Republic of China prompted experts to recognize the on-going situation as genocide. The aim of this thesis is to examine the different events that constitute the current genocide of the Uyghur nation in China, what led to it, and how it is likely to further develop. READ MORE

5. 24. Domesticating the period-tracking app in everyday life : a case study of Easy Period in the Chinese context

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

   Author : Yuhong Xu; [2020]
   Keywords : Easy Period; menstrual technology; period-tracking; self-tracking; everyday life; gender script; domestication theory; China; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Recent years have seen great changes to Chinese women’s period-tracking practice, shifting from the method of pen and paper to smartphone applications, and from women-only practice to practice involves men. This study explores such transformations by looking at a specific app named Easy Period in China and users practice with it by using qualitative methods (textual analysis and semi-structured interviews). READ MORE

6. 25. Strange Spirits : – Possession and the queering of gender and other social positions in Yuan Mei’s Zibuyu.

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Maarit Määttä; [2020]
   Keywords : spökberättelser; ghost stories; Kina; China; Qing dynasty; queer theory; queerteori; genus; gender;

   Abstract : This thesis explores a Qing dynasty collection of stories about ghosts and other strange events written by Yuan Mei (1716–1798). The thesis focuses on a number of stories about possession of living persons by spirits, which are studied with the help of Sara Ahmed’s queer phenomenology. READ MORE