Subaltern China : rural migrants, media, and cultural practices /
Sun, Wanning, 1963-
Subaltern China : rural migrants, media, and cultural practices / Wanning Sun. - 1 online resource - Asia/Pacific/perspectives . - Asia/Pacific/perspectives. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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.
9781442236783 (electronic bk.) 1442236787 (electronic bk.)
2014025505
Since 2000
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.
Travailleurs agricoles--Conditions sociales.--Chine
Paysannerie--Conditions sociales.--Chine
Travailleurs migrants--Chine.
Classes sociales--Chine.
Médias--Aspect social--Chine.
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.
China--Social conditions--2000-
China--Economic conditions--2000-
Chine--Conditions sociales--2000-
Chine--Conditions économiques--2000-
China.
Electronic books.
HD1537.C5 / S85 2014eb
331.5/440951
Subaltern China : rural migrants, media, and cultural practices / Wanning Sun. - 1 online resource - Asia/Pacific/perspectives . - Asia/Pacific/perspectives. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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.
9781442236783 (electronic bk.) 1442236787 (electronic bk.)
2014025505
Since 2000
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.
Travailleurs agricoles--Conditions sociales.--Chine
Paysannerie--Conditions sociales.--Chine
Travailleurs migrants--Chine.
Classes sociales--Chine.
Médias--Aspect social--Chine.
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.
China--Social conditions--2000-
China--Economic conditions--2000-
Chine--Conditions sociales--2000-
Chine--Conditions économiques--2000-
China.
Electronic books.
HD1537.C5 / S85 2014eb
331.5/440951