scholarly journals Source apportionment and health effect of NOx over the Pearl River Delta region in southern China

2016 ◽  
Vol 212 ◽  
pp. 135-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingcheng Lu ◽  
Teng Yao ◽  
Ying Li ◽  
Jimmy C.H. Fung ◽  
Alexis K.H. Lau
Keyword(s):  
Source Apportionment ◽  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Health Effect ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
Pearl River Delta Region ◽  
Delta Region ◽  
The Pearl River Delta ◽  
The Pearl River

Filial or Rebellious Daughters? Dagongmei in the Pearl River Delta Region, South China, in the 1990s

2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuen-Fong Woon
Keyword(s):  
Pearl River Delta ◽  
Southern China ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
Temporary Workers ◽  
Pearl River Delta Region ◽  
Delta Region ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
The Pearl River Delta ◽  
The Pearl River

Economic opportunities in the Pearl River Delta region in Southern China have attracted a large number of unmarried female temporary workers or dagongmei from the central and western regions of the country. Existing literature on the dagongmei tend to cast them into either “rebellious” or “filial” daughters. This study reexamines these ideal types based mainly on data gathered from in-depth interviews with 75 female and 55 male factory workers in 1993 and 1994. Data gathered from male workers allowed the study to compare behavior patterns and life plans of male and female temporary labor migrants. The study suggests that it might be more meaningful to understand the tension the dagongmei face in their desire to be independent and their sense of family obligation.

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