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<B>A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press&#39;s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more</B>.<BR /><BR /><I>Leftover Women in China</I>&#160;offers an intimate empirical and theoretical analysis of the lived experience and legal consciousness of China&#39;s &quot;leftover women,&quot; women who remain unmarried in their late twenties and beyond. Drawing on in-depth interviews and focus groups, Qian Liu examines how leftover women&mdash;including women who prefer to remain single, those who are waiting for the right husband, and queer women&mdash;deal with parental and social pressures, as well as the denial of their right to have children outside of heterosexual marriage. Sensitively exploring the distinctive patterns of parent-child interactions in Chinese families, Liu invites readers to understand leftover women&#39;s observance, evasion, and manipulation of the law in the context of intergenerational relationships and obligations.