{"product_id":"leftover-in-china-roseann-lake-9780393254631","title":"Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower","description":"\u003cp\u003eForty years ago, China enacted the one-child policy, only recently relaxed. Among many other unintended consequences, it resulted in both an enormous gender imbalance--with a predicted twenty million more men than women of marriage age by 2020--and China's first generations of only-daughters. Given the resources normally reserved for boys, these girls were pushed to study, excel in college, and succeed in careers, as if they were sons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow living in an economic powerhouse, enough of these women have decided to postpone marriage--or not marry at all--to spawn a label: \"leftovers.\" Unprecedentedly well-educated and goal-oriented, they struggle to find partners in a society where gender roles have not evolved as vigorously as society itself, and where new professional opportunities have made women less willing to compromise their careers or concede to marriage for the sake of being wed. Further complicating their search for a mate, the vast majority of China's single men reside in and are tied to the rural areas where they were raised. This makes them geographically, economically, and educationally incompatible with city-dwelling \"leftovers,\" who also face difficulty in partnering with urban men, given the urban men's general preference for more dutiful, domesticated wives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart critique of China's paternalistic ideals, part playful portrait of the romantic travails of China's trailblazing women and their well-meaning parents who are anxious to see their daughters snuggled into traditional wedlock, Roseann Lake's \u003cem\u003eLeftover in China\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on the lives of four individual women against a backdrop of colorful anecdotes, hundreds of interviews, and rigorous historical and demographic research to show how these \"leftovers\" are the linchpin to China's future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roseann Lake\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0393254631\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393254631\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/13\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/11\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2018 pg. 24","brand":"Roseann Lake","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43919656157439,"sku":"9780393254631","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_9db66897-4dc3-4ce6-bf46-de867de05215.jpg?v=1680810589","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/leftover-in-china-roseann-lake-9780393254631","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}