Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Growing up under different regimes – childhood memories of mothers and their children

2 Educational choices and the fostering of independence

3 Working towards the future – professional aspirations

4 Courtship and marriage in Beijing and Taipei

5 Making choices

6 Disenchantment and escape

7 Perspectives of hope

Conclusion

Index

About the Author

Désirée Remmert obtained her PhD in Anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK. Afterwards she conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Tübingen in Germany, Academia Sinica in Taiwan and at the LSE, UK.