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Book review: Trade Unions in China: The Challenge of Labour Unrest

While they managed a considerable amount of business management, operation, and development, they differed from women from Jiaocheng and Qiongshan in that they had family or paid assistance with domestic work and they developed more political networks on their own. In the last chapter, Chen explores areas for future studies and concludes that her findings are twofold. First, she contends that although gender inequality does exist in contemporary China, it has been overstated and dramatized by previous scholars. Second, she underscores the important connection between business development and local politics. There is a schism between the two arguments of the book, begging for analysis of their interconnections. The first argument revolves around the issues of gender and gender inequality, whereas the second argument points to the crucial linkage between contemporary local business and local politics. Each of these two arguments stands on its own. Without harnessing the two arguments with an overarching theoretical thread, the book lacks a certain coherence in its argumentation. Nonetheless, this book should be of interest to scholars of China studies and women’s studies.