This book explores the experience of China's migrant labourers in Shanghai from anthropological
and gendered analyses offering extraordinary insights into the life-world of the marginalized
people. China has hundreds of millions of internal migrants coming from the countryside to the
big cities in search of fame fortune or just a living. The author also examines the gender
dynamics at work in intimacy and leisure of this marginalized yet huge population. With an
in-depth and multidisciplinary examination of the experience of restaurant workers in Shanghai
this book sheds humanising new light on the experience of the megacity from the inside and will
be of direct value to policymakers demographers feminist scholars anthropologists
sociologists and responsible citizens.
