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Musica Practica : The Sound of the Beijing New Worker Band
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 281–301.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Yurou Zhong Abstract Since its inception in 2002, the Beijing New Worker Band has become a representative art group formed by and dedicated to migrant workers. Changing its name three times in twenty years, the band has demonstrated a strong capacity to adapt to uncertain political tides...
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How to Create a New Workers’ Culture Together: An Interview with Wang Dezhi
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 507–521.
Published: 01 May 2023
... ÏàÉù] performance. In 2002, some fellow migrant workers and I set up the Migrant Workers Arts Troupe (now called the New Workers Band), which gradually developed into the Migrant Workers Home. In order to begin serving the needs of the workers we knew, we used the royalties from our CD sales to set up...
View articletitled, How to Create a <span class="search-highlight">New</span> <span class="search-highlight">Workers</span>’ Culture Together: An Interview with Wang Dezhi
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 257–279.
Published: 01 May 2023
... to Taipei, Seoul, Shanghai, and Beijing. The contributions included in this special issue take the notion of shared space in different directions for disparate contexts, genres, and media. Yurou Zhong's article emphasizes the uncertainties facing the members of the New Worker Band as they expand...
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Alternative Voice and Local Youth Identity in Chinese Local-Language Rap Music
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positions (2014) 22 (1): 263–292.
Published: 01 February 2014
...” (“The ‘bump-
kin’ Song Angered Qingdaonese; How Can We Forget the Migrant Workers in Developing
Qingdao Qingdao chenbao (Qingdao Morning News), August 26, 2004.
24. Pop music in mainland China has been heavily influenced by Cantopop from...
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Village Songs and the Building of Community Culture: A Talk
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 485–506.
Published: 01 May 2023
... Planning and Design Institute (Zhongguo xiangjian yuan中国乡建院) and the “Earth Folk” (“Dadi minyao” 大地民谣) tour of the New Worker Band, discussed in Yurou Zhong's article in this issue. The Village Song Project was initiated by Lü Tu and Sun Heng, extending Lü’s long-standing interest in the everyday lives...
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I and We in Picun: The Making of Chinese Poet Xiao Hai
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 303–331.
Published: 01 May 2023
... moves to Picun. He is stunned by what he finds there, most of all the migrant worker museum, the Literature Group, and the New Worker Art Troupe, the folk-rock band that is the Migrant Workers Home's calling card—and by the fact that these and other facilities and activities are available to the migrant...
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Daizō Sakurai's Trans-Asian Tent Theater, Picun, and the Reenchantment of Urban Space
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 357–378.
Published: 01 May 2023
... mobility is also the main theme of the main song of the play, “Pinkun zhi ge” (“The Song of Poverty”). The lyrics were written by the poet Zhou Zan, and Sun Heng 孙恒 from the New Workers Band composed the music: The sun rises from the dust The road winds along darkness Down down down down sort out our...
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Culture Governance of the New Economic Human: The Entrepreneurial Biography in Contemporary China
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positions (2014) 22 (4): 877–906.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., Liberalism against Liberalism, 100.
24. Guan Shan and Xiao Dong, Shangbang: Dalu caifu xinjieceng de jueqi (Merchant Guilds: The
Rise of the Mainland’s New Wealthy Class in China) (Beijing: Tuanjie Chubanshe, 2006); Xiao
Bin, Dichan jianghu...
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“When It's Dark in the East, It's Light in the West”: Lifelong Venturing and Accelerated Temporality in Beijing's Urban Villages
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 595–617.
Published: 01 August 2022
... Migrant Workers Monitoring Survey Report .” April 30 . https://www.stats.gov.cn/tjsj/zxfb/202004/t20200430_1742724.html . Perez Miguel . 2018 . “ Toward a Life with Dignity: Housing Struggles and New Political Horizons in Urban Chile .” American Ethnologist 45 , no. 4 : 508 – 20...
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View articletitled, “When It's Dark in the East, It's Light in the West”: Lifelong Venturing and Accelerated Temporality in <span class="search-highlight">Beijing's</span> Urban Villages
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Beijing Sojourners in New York: Postsocialism and the Question of Ideology in Global Media Culture
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positions (1999) 7 (3): 763–798.
Published: 01 August 1999
... to the Chinese artist Wang
Liu I Beijing Sojourners in New York 78 1
Guangyi’s satirical paintings about Marlboro, Kodak, Benetton, Band-Aid,
and other corporations.
However...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Beijing</span> Sojourners in <span class="search-highlight">New</span> York: Postsocialism and the Question of Ideology in Global Media Culture
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Rural Taste, Urban Fashions: The Cultural Politics of Rural/Urban Difference in Contemporary China
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positions (2003) 11 (3): 613–646.
Published: 01 August 2003
... urban dwellers. While
there was a widespread appreciation of the need for peasant labor by city
officials and residents, China’s urban workplace experienced new forms of
discrimination and control directed against these workers or residents...
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On Mourning and Solidarities, on Poetry and Translation: A Note from the Associate Editor
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positions (2025) 33 (1): 21–28.
Published: 01 February 2025
... . 1981 . Call to Arms . Translated by Xianyi Yang and Yang Gladys . Beijing : Foreign Languages . Ting Chun Chun . 2023 . “ The ‘Unlikely Writers’ from Picun: Reinventing Literature and Politics at the Migrant Workers Home .” positions 31 , no. 2 : 333 – 55 . https...
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Framing Time: New Women and the Cinematic Representation of Colonial Modernity in 1930s Shanghai
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positions (2007) 15 (3): 553–579.
Published: 01 August 2007
... on the street, and
those women workers march on, stepping over it with utter indifference.
The final moment of New Women is thus an admixture of life and death,
hope and despair. That double evocation, however, is not of dichotomous...
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The Discourse on Love, Marriage, and Sexuality in Post-Mao China: A Reading of the Journalistic Literature on Women
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positions (1996) 4 (2): 381–414.
Published: 01 May 1996
... highlights my point. The
man was a forty-two-year-old researcher at a research institute in Beijing;
the woman, a forty-one-year-old temporary worker at the same place. Both
were from a rural area in Jilin Province. They met on a blind date...
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Women Artists in Twentieth-Century China: A Prehistory of the Contemporary
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 19–64.
Published: 01 February 2020
..., a female model worker, being granted an audience with Chairman Mao and other top leaders. Deng Shu further won a third prize for a collaborative positions 28:1 February 2020 36 design made with her husband, Hou Yimin (b. 1930), a career pattern that would become typical of many women artists in the new...
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The Left-Wing Drama Movement in China and Its Relationship to Japan
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positions (2006) 14 (2): 449–466.
Published: 01 May 2006
... of global workers’ drama and proletarian revolution-
ary drama. During this time, the Left-Wing Theater performed Red Spark
by Murayama Tomoyoshi and the New Tsukiji troupe performed Culture
Circus, written collectively by the arts unit. Its impact...
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Invisible Women: Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Women's Film
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positions (1995) 3 (1): 255–280.
Published: 01 February 1995
...Dai Jinhua Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Invisible Women: Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Women‘s Film
Dai Jinhua
Dai Jinhua is one of the outstanding younger scholars of the new generation of
Chinese...
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Refashioning Suzhou: Dress, Commodification, and Modernity
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positions (2003) 11 (2): 443–478.
Published: 01 May 2003
... October Wuchang Uprising and the found-
ing of their six-day-old nation. Nonetheless, as that day’s commentary of
the “fashion (shimao) clique” in the lively “Free Talk” section of Shenbao
[Shanghai news] made clear, the recent political uprising...
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Retheorizing the Personal: Identity, Writing, and Gender in Yu Luojin's Autobiographical Act
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positions (1998) 6 (2): 394–438.
Published: 01 May 1998
... Hua cheng to stop selling the issue
containing Springtime Tale immediately. At once, all the official newspapers
and literary magazines- including Literary Gazette [ Wenyi bao],Beijing
Evening News [Beijing wanbao],China Youth Daily...
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The Spirits of Reform: The Power of Belief in Northern China
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positions (1996) 4 (2): 253–289.
Published: 01 May 1996
... in comparison with many villagers who had
prospered under the reforms and were building new brick homes. Neigh-
bors said the healer would have to be called again, but Sun told me she was
sure the weasel had left.
People...
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