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Forty years back in China, marriage was widespread, compulsory, and a woman's only means to a livelihood. Enter the one-child insurance plan, which despite its horrors, led to China's first decades of urban only-daughters - women who were lifted without brothers and pushed to study, achieve, and do well as if these were sons. Fast forward for this, where in an urbanized economic powerhouse, enough of these women have decided to postpone marriage - or not marry by any means - to spawn a label: "leftovers". Unprecedentedly well-educated and goal-oriented, they battle to find associates in a modern culture where gender functions have not progressed as vigorously as the modern culture itself. Part critique of China's paternalistic ideals, part playful family portrait of the romantic travails of China's trailblazing women, Roseann Lake's Leftover in China employs colorful anecdotes, a huge selection of interviews, and rigorous historical and demographic research showing how the "leftovers" are the ultimate linchpin to China's future.
