ABSTRACT
Having explored mothers’ life experiences, I now turn to the daughters’ generation. The majority of the daughters in my study were born after the one-child policy came into effect in 1979. In contrast with their mothers, who had to look after siblings and share housework in their childhood, these daughters as only children were the focus of the family attention and enjoyed great privileges in relation to education. How did their needs become the centre of the family’s activities and what were the consequences for these two generations of women? How did the daughters understand their mothers’ redundancy? How had their mothers’ changed circumstances impacted upon their own life and future aspirations?
