Hui Faye Xiao is associate professor and chairperson of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Kansas. Her most recent publications include Youth Economy, Crisis, and Reinvention in Twenty-First-Century China (2020) and Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics (co-edited with Ping Zhu, forthcoming 2021).
Since the economic reform launched in 1978, China has witnessed a vast group of rural women leaving their families behind in the countryside to enter urban middle-class homes as domestic workers.…