Searching for Sweetness: Women's Mobile Lives in China and Lesotho

Qing Tingting Liu of the University at Albany, SUNY reviews Searching for Sweetness: Women’s Mobile Lives in China and Lesotho by Sarah Hanisch. In this book, Hanisch argues that Fuqingese women wisely integrate their personal or family project into the Chinese national modernity project, even if many of them feel it is hard to catch up with the development pace of their home country or feel they can only live in the “space of abjection” in Lesotho. A multi-sited ethnography approach facilitates to understand the complexity of their transnational experiences from both historical and local contexts. Searching for Sweetness can contribute to discussion on international migration in various disciplines, including Sociology, Anthropology, Human Geography, Women’s and Gender Studies, Chinese Studies, Southern African Regional Studies, and Social Work.

Read the book review at https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183221131804.