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Literature as Medium: The Development and Cultural Space of New Worker Literature
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 451–471.
Published: 01 May 2023
... experiences and tells their workplace stories, is an artistic configuration entirely different from both mass culture and high literature. This article analyzes the significance of this new worker literature from three perspectives. First, since the 1990s, new workers have been using the traditional medium...
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The “Unlikely Writers” from Picun: Reinventing Literature and Politics at the Migrant Workers Home
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 333–355.
Published: 01 May 2023
... launched the bimonthly New Workers Literature journal ( Xingongren wenxue 新工人文学) to provide more publishing opportunities to worker writers. For an insecure working-class writer, having one's work recognized as literature worthy of collection and publication grants both legitimacy and meaning...
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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...
FIGURES
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 257–279.
Published: 01 May 2023
...) to opening a school for migrant children and a museum devoted to migrant worker culture; from organizing a yearly New Year Migrant Workers’ Gala, poetry recitals, and theatrical performances in their Workers’ Theater to setting up the Picun Literature Group. In prepandemic times, one of its two courtyards...
FIGURES
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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 the Cultural Revolution, the field of literary research in
China became invigorated.1 While scholars favorably evaluated May Fourth
and New Era literature,2 they basically rejected 1930s left-wing literature
(including resistance war literature...
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Contributors
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 523–527.
Published: 01 May 2023
...人: 迷失与崛起 ( China's New Workers: Lost and Rising Up , 2013); Zhongguo xin gongren: Wenhua yu mingyun 中国新工人:文化与命运 ( China's New Workers: Culture and Destiny , 2015); and Zhongguo xin gongren: Nügong zhuanji 中国新工人: 女工专辑 ( China's New Workers: Biographies of Women Workers , 2017). Her current...
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Opening a Minor Genre of Resistance in Reform China: Scream, Dream, and Transgression in a Workplace
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positions (2000) 8 (2): 531.
Published: 01 May 2000
... was in many respects typical:
You know, none of the workers is willing to work in the cleaning room.
So they bully the new hire. When I came to work here, they placed me in
the room and never let me move out. The room is stuffy, and the smells...
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Tales of Seduction: Factory Girls in Korean Proletarian Literature
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positions (2006) 14 (2): 345–371.
Published: 01 May 2006
... atten-
tion to conditions in the new industries. Two of the most prominent strike
demands by blue-collar women in the 1920s and early 1930s were for higher
wages and an end to sexual violence in the factories.1 Women workers...
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Rival Imagined Communities: Class and Nation in Japanese Proletarian Literature
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positions (2006) 14 (2): 373–404.
Published: 01 May 2006
... to Hokkaido as well as to the
colonies of Taiwan and Korea because of its need for new markets, because
complaining workers in the peripheries would be less likely to be heard
in the metropole, and because the natural resources...
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“And They Would Start Again”: Women and Struggle in Korean Nationalist Literature
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positions (1995) 3 (2): 392–417.
Published: 01 May 1995
...You-me Park Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 "And They Would Start Again":
Women and Struggle in Korean Nationalist literature
You-me Park
I still remember the day in 1972 when I came home from school to find the
whole...
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The Worker-Poet as the Ethnographic Partner: Documenting the Emotional Pain of Rural Migrant Women
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 403–429.
Published: 01 May 2023
... for a kind of “methodological creativity” that involves “uniting an anthropology of the body and an anthropology of discourses and practices.” She also repeatedly refers to writers—novelists, news reporters, authors of self-help literature—as her “allies” (18), who are “very skilled ethnographic partners...
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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
... and artistic activities of an emerging new working class echoes Mao Zedong's seminal Yan'an Talks on Literature and Art (1942) that certified the leadership of the workers, soldiers, and peasants by assigning art and literature to their service with the corollary of the proletarianization of the petty...
View articletitled, Musica Practica : The Sound of the Beijing <span class="search-highlight">New</span> <span class="search-highlight">Worker</span> Band
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Korean as Proletarian: Ethnicity and Identity in Chang Hyŏk-chu's “Hell of the Starving”
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positions (2006) 14 (2): 279–309.
Published: 01 May 2006
... to Korean revolutionaries and to lend help to Korean
workers in Japan. Under a new “One country, one Party” policy, the Japa-
nese branch of the Korean Communist Party eventually became absorbed
into the organizational structure...
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positions (2006) 14 (2): 251–278.
Published: 01 May 2006
... mockery of proletarian literature,
the novel most often represents the reduction of human beings to exchange
relations by the frequent mention of bathhouse workers and prostitutes and
most spectacularly by the architect/corpse-dealer who looks...
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The Conclusive Scene: Mao and the Red Guards in July 1968
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positions (2005) 13 (3): 535–574.
Published: 01 August 2005
... of the strongest issues of the Maoist group—audaciously linked
the university’s destiny to the experimentation of new political possibilities
in the worker-factory relationship.45 The issue deserves specific research to
clarify both the political content...
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A Middle-Class Misidentification: Self-Identification in the Autobiographical Poetry of Chinese Female Peasant Workers
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 773–798.
Published: 01 November 2019
... for identities. A Middle-Class Misidentification: Self- Identification in the Autobiographical Poetry of Chinese Female Peasant Workers Yun Li Rong Rong Introduction In 2014 when scholars were wondering if Chinese peasant workers could be proletarianized and bring any new voice to the working class (see Pun...
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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
..., a cofounder of the Beijing Migrant Workers Home and creator of Tongxin Mutual-Aid Social Enterprise [a chain of secondhand clothing stores—Trans.]. We serve the needs of the “new workers” who have come from the villages to find jobs in the cities with programs in areas such as culture, education, and civil...
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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
... and provided services for them. During this period, she taught at and then served as the director of the Workers University (Gongren daxue 工人大学), a free educational program organized by the Migrant Workers Home with courses designed specifically for workers. Lü has also published three ethnographies on new...
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A “World-Class” (Labor) Camp/us: Foxconn and China's New Generation of Labor Migrants
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 411–435.
Published: 01 August 2015
...—the authors trace the development of the Foxconn Technology Group as a case that demonstrates the aggressive nature of capital expansion in China and its impact on the lives of Chinese workers. While the Foxconn Group produces Apple products for the world's consumers, it simultaneously produces a new Chinese...
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Tenkô And Writing: The Case of Nakano Shigeharu
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positions (2014) 22 (2): 517–540.
Published: 01 May 2014
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about workers’ lives after their tenkô. Many of these works glorified labor
and were absorbed into “production literature” (seisan bungaku), a part of
official policy literature kokusaku( bungaku) of the time used to propagate
state ideology...
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