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.
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ISBN
9781442236783
Publisert
2015
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Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok
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