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SUMMARY:The Slow Revolution: Women’s Futures in China’s Late Meritocrac
 y
DESCRIPTION:Contact: marina.svensson@ace.lu.se\n\nHow are women forging liv
 able futures at a moment when they have won unprecedented access to educat
 ion\, but the promise of upward mobility is fraying and patriarchal pressu
 res are resurging? This talk examines this question through the lives of e
 ducated Chinese women.In China\, women are outperforming men in education 
 and becoming increasingly mobile\, even as they navigate slowing economic 
 growth\, discriminatory labor markets\, and mounting pressure to marry and
  have children “on time.” Based on long-term ethnographic research wit
 h students and graduates from mainland China moving through Singapore as a
  regional hub\, I show how women use migration to widen possibility\, nego
 tiate with the social clock\, and piece together livable futures. In China
 \, as across much of the world\, women’s educational ascent is transform
 ing family life\, gender expectations\, and the meaning of adulthood. This
  slow revolution\, I argue\, is unsettling the patriarchal foundations on 
 which modern states and systems of social reproduction have long depended\
 , even as it collides with demographic anxiety\, reactionary backlash\, an
 d the weakening promise of meritocracy.&nbsp\;Bio:&nbsp\;Zachary M. Howlet
 t is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the National University of Sin
 gapore. His research focuses on meritocracy\, mobility\, and kinship in Ch
 ina and Chinese overseas communities. He is the author of Meritocracy and 
 Its Discontents: Anxiety and the National College Entrance Exam in China&n
 bsp\;(Cornell University Press\, 2021).This event is organized by the Grad
 uate School in Asian Studies\n\nMore information about the event: https://
 www.ace.lu.se/calendar/slow-revolution-womens-futures-chinas-late-meritocr
 acy
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LOCATION:Asia Library\, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies\, Söl
 vegatan 18 B\, Lund
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