Global markets, local bodies : the labor of service -- "The customer is God": women and China's new occupational geography -- Virtual personalism : importing global luxury and middle class femininity to the Beijing Transluxury Hotel -- Virtuous professionalism : localizing global luxury at the...

"When Chinese women bound their daughters' feet, many consequences ensued, some beyond the imagination of the binders and the bound. The most obvious of these consequences was to impress upon a small child's body and mind that girls differed from boys, thus reproducing gender hierarchy. What is...