Burnout Market Feminism
Urban Chinese Businesswomen in the Internet Age
$134.50
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
2 June 2026
Summary
Burnout Market Feminism explores the lives of elite urban businesswomen in the Internet Age, revealing why they find themselves caught in a cycle of burnout.
This book synthesizes Han Byung-Chul’s concept of the Burnout Society with feminist Li Xiaojiang’s market feminism theory. To unravel the puzzle of how women in China have thrived in business despite state crackdowns on feminism, Ling Tang argues for an examination of the market’s role in postsocialist China and …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262051880 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262051885 |
| Author: | Ling Tang |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 2 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Labor and Technology |
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ENDORSEMENTS
“In this remarkable book, Tang honors the thrill female agents feel when establishing online abundance while pitilessly uncovering its cost to bodies, spirit, emotions, and life force. Tang exhorts feminist labor studies to see our real world and to work on a feminist critique appropriate to it.”
—Tani Barlow, Rice University; author of The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism and In the Event of Women
“This well-written book captures women entrepreneurs’ empowerment and burnout in China’s digital economy, highlighting how market reforms shape their achievements and struggles amid shifting sociopolitical contexts, feminist activism, gender relations, and subjectivity.”
—Susanne Choi, Chinese University of Hong Kong; lead author of Masculine Compromise
About The Author
Ling Tang
Ling Tang is an artist-activist-academic who views sociology as art and vice versa. They are a Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne and a singer-songwriter under the name Lyn Dawn or x5510__x51CC.
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