@article{Yu_2022, title={The Careers of New Chinese Professional Women: Planning, Pathways and WeChat}, volume={13}, url={https://cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article/view/3301}, DOI={10.3384/cu.3301}, abstractNote={<p>This paper considers a specific cohort of <em>new Chinese</em> professional women born under the one-child policy in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). It explores their perceptions and experiences of career in Australia through qualitative data collected from twenty-one professionals. This paper seeks to unpack the complexities of their career planning, pathways, and change, including their use of the WeChat platform to mediate their careers. I argue that <em>new Chinese</em> professional women’s experience of career is ambivalent. They aspired to achieve some degree of ’freedom’ through choosing to further their career in Australia; simultaneously, they attempted to build homeland connections and fulfil familial obligations as <em>Dushengnv</em>. As a result of constant negotiation, their career pathways were full of ’nonlinear’ changes. WeChat works specifically as one important platform that structures the ambivalence experienced – it allows them to establish connections with family in China and the local ethnic community, but it may also limit their ability to develop networks in the Australian workplace; it offers opportunities for entrepreneurship, yet it complicates their social positions. The paper contributes to broader knowledge of <em>new Chinese</em>professional women’s careers.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Culture Unbound}, author={Yu, Yinghua}, year={2022}, month={Feb.}, pages={183–203} }