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How are different groups of people such as sex workers, migrant
workers, rural cadres and homosexuals represented in China's media?
How accurately do representations created by the media reflect the
lived experiences of Chinese people? Do Chinese people accept the
representations and messages disseminated by the media? Can they
use the media to portray their own interests? How are media
practices in China changing? Have new technologies and increased
access to international media opened up new spaces for struggle in
China? The essays in this volume address these questions by using a
combination of ethnography and textual analysis and by exploring
representation in and usage of a range of media including instant
messaging, the internet, television, films, magazines and
newspapers. The essays highlight highlights the richness,
diversity, and sometimes contradictory tendencies of the meanings
and consequences of media representations in China. The volume
cautions against approaches that take the representations created
by the media in China at face value and against oversimplified
assumptions about the motivations and agency of players in the
complex struggles that occur between the media, the Chinese state,
and Chinese citizens.
This text had a major impact in its original Chinese version.
Reviewed in the Far East Economic Review as 'one of the richest
portraits of the Chinese countryside published in the reform era',
the book charts a long journey through the hinterland region of the
Yellow River undertaken by the author between 1994 and 1996. It
examines in exhaustive detail the lives and work of peasants, Party
and local government officials, providing a wealth of data on the
nature of life in post-reform rural China. The author argues that
global integration is but the latest 'great leap forward' in a
succession of periodic reforms going back over a hundred years,
that in every case it is China's farmers who bear the brunt of the
changes, that in the past they have always rebelled, and, he
predicts, they will do so again.
Since the mid-1980s, mass migration from the countryside to
urban areas has been one of the most dramatic and noticeable
changes in China. Labour migration has not only exerted a profound
impact on China's economy; it has also had far-reaching
consequences for its social development. This book examines labour
migration in China, focusing on the social dimensions of this
phenomenon, as well as on the economic aspects of the migration and
development relationship. It provides in-depth coverage of
pertinent topics which include the role of labour migration in
poverty alleviation; the social costs of remittance and regional,
gender and generational inequalities in their distribution; hukou
reform and the inclusion of migrants in urban social security and
medical insurance systems; the provision of schools for migrants'
children; the provision of sexual health services to migrants; the
housing conditions of migrants; the mobilization of women workers'
social networks to improve labour protection; and the role of NGOs
in providing social services for migrants. Throughout, it pays
particular attention to policy implications, including the impact
of the recent policy shift of the Chinese government, which has
made social issues more central to national development policies,
and has initiated policy reforms pertaining to migration.
Bringing a new dimension to the study of citizenship, Chinese
Citizenship examines how individuals at the margins of Chinese
society deal with state efforts to transform them into model
citizens in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Based on extensive original research, the authors argue that social
and cultural citizenship has a greater impact on people's lives
than legal, civil and political citizenship. The seven case studies
present intimate portraits of the conflicted identities of
peasants, criminals, ethnic minorities, the urban poor, rural
migrant children in the cities, mainland migrants in Hong Kong and
Chinese youth studying abroad, as they negotiate the perilous
dilemmas presented by globalization and neoliberalism.
Drawing on a diverse array of theories and methods from
anthropology, sociology, education, political science, cultural
studies and development studies, the book presents fresh
perspectives and highlights the often devastating consequences that
citizenship distinctions can have on Chinese lives.
Since the mid-1980s, mass migration from the countryside to urban
areas has been one of the most dramatic and noticeable changes in
China. Labour migration has not only exerted a profound impact on
China's economy; it has also had far-reaching consequences for its
social development. This book examines labour migration in China,
focusing on the social dimensions of this phenomenon, as well as on
the economic aspects of the migration and development relationship.
It provides in-depth coverage of pertinent topics which include the
role of labour migration in poverty alleviation; the social costs
of remittance and regional, gender and generational inequalities in
their distribution; hukou reform and the inclusion of migrants in
urban social security and medical insurance systems; the provision
of schools for migrants' children; the provision of sexual health
services to migrants; the housing conditions of migrants; the
mobilization of women workers' social networks to improve labour
protection; and the role of NGOs in providing social services for
migrants. Throughout, it pays particular attention to policy
implications, including the impact of the recent policy shift of
the Chinese government, which has made social issues more central
to national development policies, and has initiated policy reforms
pertaining to migration.
This text had a major impact in its original Chinese version.
Reviewed in the Far East Economic Review as 'one of the richest
portraits of the Chinese countryside published in the reform era',
it charts a long journey through the hinterland region of the
Yellow River undertaken by the author between 1994 and 1996. It
examines in exhaustive detail the lives and work of peasants, Party
and local government officials, providing a wealth of data on the
nature of life in post-reform rural China. The author argues that
global integration is but the latest 'great leap forward' in a
succession of reforms over a hundred years.
This book makes a novel contribution to the study of citizenship by
examining how individuals at the margins of Chinese society deal
with state efforts to transform them into model citizens.
Based on extensive original research, it examines how individuals
at the margins of Chinese society experienced the rights and
responsibilities of citizenship in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
This book shows how individuals dealt with state attempts to
transform them into model citizens, arguing that social and
cultural citizenship has a greater impact on peoples lives than
legal, civil and political citizenship. The seven case studies in
this book present intimate portraits of the conflicted identities
of peasants, criminals, ethnic minorities, the urban poor, rural
migrant children in the cities, mainland migrants in Hong Kong and
Chinese youth studying abroad as they negotiate the perilous
dilemmas presented by globalization and neoliberalism. Although the
focus is on marginal groups, the book portrays the nature of
citizenship in China overall.
Drawing on a diverse array of theories and methods from
anthropology, sociology, education, political science, cultural
studies and development studies, Chinese Citizenship presents fresh
perspectives and highlights the often devastating consequences that
citizenship distinctions can have on Chinese lives.
How are different groups of people such as sex workers, migrant
workers, rural cadres and homosexuals represented in China's media?
How accurately do representations created by the media reflect the
lived experiences of Chinese people? Do Chinese people accept the
representations and messages disseminated by the media? Can they
use the media to portray their own interests? How are media
practices in China changing? Have new technologies and increased
access to international media opened up new spaces for struggle in
China? The essays in this volume address these questions by using a
combination of ethnography and textual analysis and by exploring
representation in and usage of a range of media including instant
messaging, the internet, television, films, magazines and
newspapers. The essays highlight highlights the richness,
diversity, and sometimes contradictory tendencies of the meanings
and consequences of media representations in China. The volume
cautions against approaches that take the representations created
by the media in China at face value and against oversimplified
assumptions about the motivations and agency of players in the
complex struggles that occur between the media, the Chinese state,
and Chinese citizens.
Sugarcane is a globally important crop since it provides nearly 80%
of the sugar consumed worldwide. The cultivation of sugarcane is
one of the most important activities around the world due to their
alimentary, environmental, social, economic implications and
potential productive diversification with coproducts and
byproducts. This book provides new research on production systems,
uses and economic importance of sugarcane.
In China in 2018 over 200 million rural migrants worked away from
their home villages, fuelling the country's rapid economic boom. In
the 2010s over sixty-one million rural children had at least one
parent who had migrated without them, while nearly half had been
left behind by both parents. Rachel Murphy draws on her
longitudinal fieldwork in two landlocked provinces to explore the
experiences of these left-behind children and to examine the impact
of this great migration on childhood in China and on family
relationships. Using children's voices, she provides a
multi-faceted insight into experiences of parental migration, study
pressures, poverty, institutional discrimination, patrilineal
family culture, and reconfigured gendered and intergenerational
relationships.
In China in 2018 over 200 million rural migrants worked away from
their home villages, fuelling the country's rapid economic boom. In
the 2010s over sixty-one million rural children had at least one
parent who had migrated without them, while nearly half had been
left behind by both parents. Rachel Murphy draws on her
longitudinal fieldwork in two landlocked provinces to explore the
experiences of these left-behind children and to examine the impact
of this great migration on childhood in China and on family
relationships. Using children's voices, she provides a
multi-faceted insight into experiences of parental migration, study
pressures, poverty, institutional discrimination, patrilineal
family culture, and reconfigured gendered and intergenerational
relationships.
This study examines the changing effects of labor migration on the countryside of post-Mao China. Most of the changes are occurring because the migrants send money home and return to their villages for visits or to resettle. The return flows of money, people and information affects rural inequalities, rural spending patterns, agriculture, family relationships, the position of women, and the interactions between villagers and officials. Importantly, some returned migrants even create businesses at home. The book is based on in-depth fieldwork in the Chinese countryside, and it draws comparisons with migration and rural development in other countries.
This study examines the changing effects of labor migration on the countryside of post-Mao China. Most of the changes are occurring because the migrants send money home and return to their villages for visits or to resettle. The return flows of money, people and information affects rural inequalities, rural spending patterns, agriculture, family relationships, the position of women, and the interactions between villagers and officials. Importantly, some returned migrants even create businesses at home. The book is based on in-depth fieldwork in the Chinese countryside, and it draws comparisons with migration and rural development in other countries.
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