Title Subaltern China : rural migrants, media, and cultural practices / Wanning Sun

Published Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2014

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Description 1 online resource Series Asia/Pacific/perspectives Asia/Pacific/perspectives. Contents Part I. Context, method, and framework -- Configuring 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 Summary "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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Agricultural laborers -- China -- Social conditions Peasants -- China -- Social conditions Migrant labor -- China Marginality, Social -- China Social classes -- China Mass media -- Social aspects -- China Mass media -- Political aspects -- China BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations. 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 SUBJECT China -- Social conditions -- 2000- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003000103 China -- Economic conditions -- 2000- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99010023 Subject China Form Electronic book LC no. 2014025505 ISBN 9781442236783 1442236787

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