Globalization, Women, and Poverty: A Transcultural Reading of Sheng Keyi’s Northern Girls

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K. Schaffer, Xianlin Song
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China’s rise within a global economy has had diverse consequences for Chinese women. For the super rich and the rising middle class, it has offered opportunities for vast wealth. For the newly emergent underclass of migrant workers who have flooded to the cities, it has engendered exploitative states of vulnerability, especially for rural women. In this paper we locate our inquiry in the context of globalization and its impact on rural women’s lives as witnessed through the medium of a unique and distinctive women’s life narrative, Sheng Keyi’s Bei mei ( Northern Girls ) . The text testifies to the underside of women’s lives within the new market economy, documenting the cruelty of global capitalism. It presents an alternative version of the history of China’s rise in the global economy and maps a trajectory of increasing inequality from a previously silenced female perspective. Sheng Keyi’s world speaks to the sordid world of women, the world of yin . It coexists with the dizzying ascent of the yang ―as the powerful nation grapples with social inequality and fragmentation. In its international circulation, Northern Girls opens readers to the contradictions and ambivalent aspects of China’s economic rise and its consequences specifically for migrant women.
全球化、妇女与贫困:盛可依《北方女孩》的跨文化解读
中国在全球经济中的崛起对中国女性产生了多种影响。对于超级富豪和正在崛起的中产阶级来说,它提供了获得巨额财富的机会。对于涌入城市的新出现的下层移民工人来说,它造成了脆弱的剥削状态,特别是对农村妇女。在本文中,我们将我们的研究定位在全球化的背景下,以及全球化对农村妇女生活的影响,这是通过盛克益的《北方女孩》这一独特而独特的女性生活叙事媒介所见证的。这本书见证了新市场经济下女性生活的阴暗面,记录了全球资本主义的残酷。它呈现了中国在全球经济中崛起历史的另一种版本,并从以前沉默的女性视角描绘了不平等加剧的轨迹。盛可依的世界讲述的是肮脏的女性世界,阴的世界。与此同时,这个强大的国家还在努力解决社会不平等和分裂问题。在国际发行的《北方女孩》向读者展示了中国经济崛起的矛盾和矛盾方面,尤其是对流动妇女的影响。
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期刊介绍: Frontiers of Literature in China seeks to provide a forum for a broad blend of peer-reviewed academic papers of literature in order to promote communication and exchanges between litterateurs in China and abroad. It will reflect the enormous advances made in China in the field of literature in recent years. In addition, this journal also bears the mission of introducing the academic achievements on Chinese literature research to the world. The coverage will include the following main branches of literature, both theoretical and applied: ancient Chinese literature, modern Chinese literature and contemporary Chinese literature.
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