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The Resource Subaltern China : rural migrants, media, and cultural practices, Wanning Sun

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

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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
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource
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
Isbn
9781442236783
Instance
Label
Subaltern China : rural migrants, media, and cultural practices
Title
Subaltern China
Title remainder
rural migrants, media, and cultural practices
Statement of responsibility
Wanning Sun
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
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
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http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1963-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Sun, Wanning
Dewey number
331.5/440951
Index
index present
LC call number
HD1537.C5
LC item number
S85 2014eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Asia/Pacific/perspectives
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Agricultural laborers
  • Peasants
  • Migrant labor
  • Marginality, Social
  • Social classes
  • Mass media
  • Mass media
  • China
  • China
  • BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE
  • Agricultural laborers
  • Economic history
  • Marginality, Social
  • Mass media
  • Mass media
  • Migrant labor
  • Peasants
  • Social classes
  • Social conditions
  • China
Label
Subaltern China : rural migrants, media, and cultural practices, Wanning Sun
Instantiates
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
890693542
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781442236783
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)890693542
Label
Subaltern China : rural migrants, media, and cultural practices, Wanning Sun
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
890693542
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781442236783
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)890693542

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