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Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower
Written by Roseann Lake
Narrated by Janet Song
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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Forty years ago in China, marriage was universal, compulsory, and a woman's only means to a livelihood. Enter the one-child policy, which despite its horrors, resulted in China's first generations of urban only-daughters?girls who were raised without brothers and pushed to study, achieve, and succeed as if they were sons. Fast forward to the present, where in an urbanized 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 the society itself. Part critique of China's paternalistic ideals, part playful portrait of the romantic travails of China's trailblazing women, Roseann Lake's Leftover in China employs colorful anecdotes, hundreds of interviews, and rigorous historical and demographic research to show how the "leftovers" are the ultimate linchpin to China's future.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The book is great but the reader is terrible! Hence the docking of stars in the review for an otherwise enjoyable book. The narrator doesn’t speak Chinese so it’s painful to listen to her mispronounce words as if she’s doing a satirical impression of a Chinese person. Couldn’t the publisher have found someone better qualified for the role?