Subaltern China : rural migrants, media, and cultural practices

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Label

Subaltern China : rural migrants, media, and cultural practices

Title remainder

rural migrants, media, and cultural practices

Statement of responsibility

Wanning Sun

Creator

• Sun, Wanning, 1963-

Subject

• Agricultural laborers -- China -- Social conditions
• Agricultural laborers -- Social conditions
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor
• China
• China -- Economic conditions -- 2000-
• China -- Social conditions -- 2000-
• Economic history
• Electronic book
• Electronic books
• Marginality, Social
• Marginality, Social -- China
• Mass media -- Political aspects
• Mass media -- Political aspects -- China
• Mass media -- Social aspects
• Mass media -- Social aspects -- China
• Migrant labor
• Migrant labor -- China
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations
• Peasants -- China -- Social conditions
• Peasants -- Social conditions
• Since 2000
• Social classes
• Social classes -- China
• Social conditions

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

Member of

• Asia/Pacific/perspectives
• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

N$T

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