"Jiangnan Steel: The Paradoxical Rise of Shanghai's New Generation of Women" The morning light filters through the plane trees of the French Concession as three generations of Shanghai women begin their day - grandmothers practicing tai chi in their silk pajamas, middle-aged mothers bargaining at wet markets in designer sne
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