CHOW, Yiu Fai. 2019. Caring in Times of Precarity: A Study of Single Women Doing Creative Work in Shanghai. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan.

En Chine, les femmes célibataires, marginalisées et stigmatisées sous le terme de shengnü (剩女 littéralement « les femmes restantes ») constituent un sujet très prisé des productions culturelles, mais n’ont pas encore reçu suffisamment d’attention de la part des chercheurs. Le livre Caring in Times of Precarity: A Study of Single Women Doing Creative Work in Shanghai de Chow Yiu Fai est une étude pionnière sur la relation des femmes célibataires avec la création. Parallèlement à sa carrière un..

CHow, Yiu Fai. 2019. Caring in Times of Precarity: A Study of Single Women Doing Creative Work in Shanghai. Camden: Palgrave Macmillan.

Single women in China, socially stigmatised and marginalised as shengnü (剩女, literally, leftover women), are popular subjects of cultural productions that deserve but are yet to receive systematic scholarly attention. Yiu Fai Chow’s Caring in Times of Precarity: A Study of Single Women Doing Creative Work in Shanghai is a pioneering study that examines the relationship between single women and creative work. Apart from being an academic, Chow is also a creative writer, and this role has give..

Driving the City: taxi drivers and the tactics of everyday life in Beijing

"This article examines the ways in which taxi driving and China's quest for global ascendency are interlinked and enmeshed. Inspired by de Certeau's The Practice of Everyday Life and his conceptual formulation of 'strategy' and 'tactic', this article explores how taxi drivers, through their everyday practice of driving, found ways and moments to tactically challenge and appropriate so-called 'civility campaigns' and a rising China. By demonstrating the numerous instances of tactics taxi drivers used, I argue that their socio-economic marginality did not, in fact, reduce them to a 'powerless' position. I bring in Foucault's analytics of power and governmentality to add to de Certeau's work by helping to explain the intertwined relationship between government and governed to shed light on the complexity implicated in the dynamics of power relations and resistance. I examine the period around the 2008 Beijing Olympics as it involved large-scale attempts to showcase China through (urban) transformation." (author's abstract

Driving the City: Taxi Drivers and the Tactics of Everyday Life in Beijing

This article examines the ways in which taxi driving and China’s quest for global ascendency are interlinked and enmeshed. Inspired by de Certeau’s The Practice of Everyday Life and his conceptual formulation of “strategy” and “tactic”, this article explores how taxi drivers, through their everyday practice of driving, found ways and moments to tactically challenge and appropriate so-called “civility campaigns” and a rising China. By demonstrating the numerous instances of tactics taxi drivers used, I argue that their socio-economic marginality did not, in fact, reduce them to a “powerless” position. I bring in Foucault’s analytics of power and governmentality to add to de Certeau’s work by helping to explain the intertwined relationship between government and governed to shed light on the complexity implicated in the dynamics of power relations and resistance. I examine the period around the 2008 Beijing Olympics as it involved large-scale attempts to showcase China through (urban) transformation