Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937–1949, written by Zhao Ma

significantly diversified in urban society, including Beijing.2Moreover, many subaltern wives, in Beijing or elsewhere, did not forsake their spouses when they were financially hard-pressed.3Just a little more attention to how these phenomena played out in Beijing or other urban areas would help readers understand better the world which runaway wives inhabited.