What makes us different is what makes us human..
Gender and China
Sundays in Central District are a spectacular sight. There in Hong Kong's most celebrated financial district, amidst awesome high-rise structures ... crowds of domestic workers, mainly from the Philippines, but also from other regions of South and Southeast Asia, gather to socialize, to attend to personal matters, and to escape the confines of their employers' homes and their mundane weekly routines of domestic work.
Constable, Nicole, 1997, Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Filipina Workers. Cornell University, p.1
Long Lines at the public phones in Statue Square on Sundays.
Global Village, an Internet cafe. Cebu, Philippines, 2000. One site for my research on correspondence marriages. (See: Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography and 'Mail Order" Marriages).
Current research in progress on contemporary Chinese bridal portraits. Bridal studio, Beijing, China, 2002.
A jeepney. Cebu, Philippines, 2000.
Tibetan prayer wheels. Mussoorie, Uttaranchal, India, July 2002.
Nicole Constable
Dr. Constable is also a UCIS Research Professor, and core faculty member in Asian Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
Selected Publications
2004 Cross-Border Marriages: Gender and Mobility in Transnational Asia. University of Pennsylvania Press.
2003 Romance on a Global Stage: Penpals, Virtual Ethnography, and Mail order Marriages. University of California Press.
1997 Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Filipina Workers. Cornell University Press.
1994 Christian Souls and Chinese Spirits: A Hakka Community in Hong Kong. University of California Press.