春色直播

Leftover Women in China: Understanding Legal Consciousness through Intergenerational Relationships

春色直播 the book: Leftover Women in China (University of California Press, 2025) offers an intimate empirical and theoretical analysis of the lived experience and legal consciousness of China's "leftover women," women who remain unmarried in their late twenties and beyond. Drawing on in-depth interviews and focus groups, Qian Liu examines how leftover women鈥攊ncluding women who prefer to remain single, those who are waiting for the right husband, and queer women鈥攄eal with parental and social pressures, as well as the denial of their right to have children outside of heterosexual marriage. Sensitively exploring the distinctive patterns of parent-child interactions in Chinese families, Liu invites readers to understand leftover women's observance, evasion, and manipulation of the law in the context of intergenerational relationships and obligations.

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