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By Wanning Sun

ISBN-10: 0203946405

ISBN-13: 9780203946404

ISBN-10: 0415392101

ISBN-13: 9780415392105

'Maid In China' examines the mobility of household employees, at either fabric and symbolic degrees, and of the formation and social mobility of the city middle-class via its intake of household provider. Intimate stranger : an advent -- Theater of suzhi : dramas of recent sociality on post-Mao tv -- Spectacles of affection : the ethical economic system of compassionate journalism -- Morality or funds : the gendered ethics of fine residing -- Latent geography of town : the poetics of inconspicuous intake -- Continuum of transgression : the practicalities of daily politics -- The paintings of "making do" : the cultural practices of the subaltern spectator

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Enter the second maid, then a third, and so on. By the last episode a parade of twenty-seven maids have entered and left the professor’s home, as a result of which no one in the family is ever the same again. Cuilin, Xiao Fang’s successor, is hard-working and dynamic, giving the apartment a good clean the moment she arrives. However, she soon becomes the prime suspect when some money on the table goes missing, and is sacked. It transpires that Cuilin has not stolen the money at all: it is found under the table, and the family asks her to come back.

As the story progresses, Gengxiong becomes much more resilient, and slowly grows to love her job. Towards the end of the series she is selected as one of the ten best domestic workers by the city’s government. qxd 07/11/2008 17:48 Page 35 Theater of suzhi 35 maid, Xiangcao, is also transformed by the end of the story. Through trial and error she manages to shed most of her “undesirable” rural manners and behavior, such as entering her employer’s bedroom without knocking, and learns much along the way about how to behave like a polite, “civilized” city person.

However, as I demonstrate in chapter 4, the experience of migrant women in the urban home by no means corroborates this general view. In fact, the hidden nature of domestic work, coupled with traditional norms of gender propriety, can make it doubly difficult to reveal exploitation and abuse suffered by migrant women in this setting. Gender plays a central role in shaping the rural migrant’s experience in urban public spaces as well as in the urban home. As I show in chapter 5, the politics of visibility determines that women’s access to public spaces, public transport, and other ways of getting around the city are more limited than men’s.

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