TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sun,Wanning
TI  - Subaltern China: rural migrants, media, and cultural practices 
T2  - Asia/Pacific/perspectives
SN  - 9781442236783
AV  - HD1537.C5 S85 2014eb
U1  - 331.5/440951 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield
KW  - Agricultural laborers
KW  - China
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Peasants
KW  - Migrant labor
KW  - Marginality, Social
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Travailleurs agricoles
KW  - Chine
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Paysannerie
KW  - Travailleurs migrants
KW  - Classes sociales
KW  - Médias
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Labor
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Labor & Industrial Relations
KW  - fast
KW  - Economic history
KW  - 2000-
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Conditions économiques
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
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