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Subaltern China
Rural Migrants, Media, and Cultural Practices
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2014
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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.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-3677-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-3678-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
302
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Chapter One. Configuring the Nongmingong No access
Chapter Two. The Chinese Subaltern No access
Chapter Three. News Values, Stability Maintenance, and the Politics of Voice No access
Chapter Four. Urban Cinema and the Limits of Harmony Production No access
Chapter Five. Documentary Videos, Cultural Activism, and Alternative History No access
Chapter Six. Digital-Political Literacy and Photography as Self-Ethnography No access
Chapter Seven. Worker-Poets, Political Intervention, and Cultural Brokering No access
Chapter Eight. Dagong Literature and a New Sexual-Moral Economy No access
Conclusion No access Pages 245 - 256
Appendix 1A. Questionnaire on Consumption of Media and Culture among Migrant Workers (English Version) No access Pages 257 - 264
Appendix 1B. Questionnaire on Consumption of Media and Culture among Migrant Workers (Chinese Version) No access Pages 265 - 272
