ISBN:
9781442236776
Language:
English
Pages:
XVII, 301 S.
,
Ill.
Additional Material:
Ill.
Series Statement:
Asia, Pacific, perspectives series
DDC:
331.5/440951
Keywords:
Landflucht
;
Soziale Lage
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Soziale Mobilität
;
Mediennutzung
;
Kultursoziologie
;
China
;
Agricultural laborers Social conditions
;
Peasants Social conditions
;
Migrant labor
;
Marginality, Social
;
Social classes
;
Mass media Social aspects
;
Mass media Political aspects
;
Agricultural laborers Social conditions
;
China
;
Peasants Social conditions
;
China
;
Migrant labor China
;
Marginality, Social China
;
Social classes China
;
Mass media Social aspects
;
China
;
Mass media Political aspects
;
China
;
Agricultural laborers Social conditions
;
Economic history
;
Marginality, Social
;
Mass media Political aspects
;
Mass media Social aspects
;
Migrant labor
;
Peasants Social conditions
;
Social classes
;
Social conditions
;
Bevölkerungsdynamik
;
Arbeitskräfte
;
China Social conditions 2000-
;
China Economic conditions 2000-
;
China Social conditions
;
2000-
;
China Economic conditions
;
2000-
;
China
;
China
;
Migration
;
Landarbeiter
;
Kulturanthropologie
;
Soziale Ungleichheit
;
Soziale Klasse
;
Unterprivilegierter
;
Sozialer Wandel
Abstract:
"Behind China's growing economic and political power is a vast underworld of marginalized social groups. In this powerful and timely book, Wanning Sun focuses on the country's hundreds of millions of rural migrant workers, who embody China's most intractable problems of inequality. Drawing on rich and extensive fieldwork, the author argues that despite the critical role their labor has played in enabling and sustaining the country's remarkable economic growth, workers and peasants have become the nation's 'subalterns.' Sun focuses especially on the role of media and culture in negotiating the unequal relationships that exist between various social groups. She shows that in the face of the harsh reality of injustice and discrimination, China's rural migrants engage in media and cultural practices that are at once both mundane and profound--invariably imbued with hope and dignity, and motivated by the dream of a better life. Exploring the cultural politics of inequality in post-Mao China, this engaging and compelling book will be essential reading for all concerned with the increasing centrality of media and the cultural politics of representation in our highly digitalized and mediated world"--Provided by publisher
Abstract:
"Behind China's growing economic and political power is a vast underworld of marginalized social groups. In this powerful and timely book, Wanning Sun focuses on the country's hundreds of millions of rural migrant workers, who embody China's most intractable problems of inequality. Drawing on rich and extensive fieldwork, the author argues that despite the critical role their labor has played in enabling and sustaining the country's remarkable economic growth, workers and peasants have become the nation's 'subalterns.' Sun focuses especially on the role of media and culture in negotiating the unequal relationships that exist between various social groups. She shows that in the face of the harsh reality of injustice and discrimination, China's rural migrants engage in media and cultural practices that are at once both mundane and profound--invariably imbued with hope and dignity, and motivated by the dream of a better life. Exploring the cultural politics of inequality in post-Mao China, this engaging and compelling book will be essential reading for all concerned with the increasing centrality of media and the cultural politics of representation in our highly digitalized and mediated world"--Provided by publisher
Description / Table of Contents:
Part I. Context, method, and frameworkConfiguring the Nongmingong -- The Chinese subaltern -- Part II. Hegemonic mediations -- News values, stability maintenance, and the politics of voice -- Urban cinema and the limits of harmony production -- Part III. Subaltern politics -- Documentary videos, cultural activism, and alternative history -- Digital-political literacy and photography as self-ethnography -- Part IV. Cultural brokering -- Worker-poets, political intervention, and cultural brokering -- Dagong literature and a new sexual-moral economy -- Conclusion -- -- Glossary -- Appendix 1A -- Appendix 1B.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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