China's Left-Behind Wives
Shen, Huifen
Tells the extraordinary story of an overlooked group of women who played an important role in one of the largest waves of migration in history. For roughly a century starting around 1850, large numbers of young men from southern China travelled to Southeast Asia in search of work. Drawing on in-depth interviews, archival materials, newspapers and periodicals, the author describes the experiences of left-behind wives in the Quanzhou region of F...
