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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.
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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part One. CONTEXT, METHOD, AND FRAMEWORK
- Chapter One. Configuring the Nongmingong
- Chapter Two. The Chinese Subaltern
- Part Two. HEGEMONIC MEDIATIONS
- Chapter Three. News Values, Stability Maintenance, and the Politics of Voice
- Chapter Four. Urban Cinema and the Limits of Harmony Production
- Part Three. SUBALTERN POLITICS
- Chapter Five. Documentary Videos, Cultural Activism, and Alternative History
- Chapter Six. Digital-Political Literacy and Photography as Self-Ethnography
- Part Four CULTURAL BROKERING
- Chapter Seven. Worker-Poets, Political Intervention, and Cultural Brokering
- Chapter Eight. Dagong Literature and a New Sexual-Moral Economy
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1A. Questionnaire on Consumption of Media and Culture among Migrant Workers (English Version)
- Appendix 1B. Questionnaire on Consumption of Media and Culture among Migrant Workers (Chinese Version)
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- About the Author