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positions (2022) 30 (3): 479–499.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Nellie Chu Abstract This article elaborates on the unmaking of the peasant classes among the tu er dai 土二代 (peasant landlords), with a particular focus on their claims to contested wealth through rent-seeking and other accumulative practices in Guangzhou's urban villages. E. P. Thompson's classic...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 619–640.
Published: 01 August 2022
.... As for the peasant landlords who have not yet moved out, “grounding displacement” characterizes their daily negotiations with “market insecurities and fragments of their own historical baggage” (Siu 2007 : 345). In other words, those who stay in the village, as Julie Chu ( 2010 : 11) argues, experience immobility...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 523–547.
Published: 01 August 2022
...,” and “creative” industries—especially along the coast—urban villages in those areas have been facing unprecedented pressure for renewal and gentrification. Using Xian Village renewal in central Guangzhou as a case study, this extended photo essay analyzes how landowning villagers or peasant landlords...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 411–427.
Published: 01 August 2022
... villages, caught in the interstices of the rural and the urban, the spaces of the in-between. The tu er dai peasant landlords, the itinerant migrant laborers, real estate agents, and small-scale entrepreneurs bring to life the polyphonic rhythms that animate the everyday pulses of urban villages. From...
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 111–136.
Published: 01 February 2022
... brought down. At that time, I was just seventeen or eighteen years old; Comrade Zhu told us, this is landlord, this is rich nong 农 (peasant), this is middle peasant, poor peasant, tenant peasant; they are five long 龙, (dragon). 1 We are labeled “rich peasants.” I worked as a laborer until I...
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positions (1995) 3 (2): 483–509.
Published: 01 May 1995
... frequently claimed that feudal exploitation had come to be linked to a capitalist market, and the landlord class was symbiotically tied to the urban bourgeoisie-which is why the peasants’ struggle against the landlord and moneylender...
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 631–657.
Published: 01 August 2020
... and discover that the white- haired goddess is none other than Xi er. They persuade her to come back to the village to exact vengeance on the landlord to ring in a new world free of oppression. As evident in both stories, the major point of conflict is between landlords and peasants with detailed depictions...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 499–524.
Published: 01 May 2011
.... Feudalism here is defined as “a mode of pro- duction in which the principal forces of production are the peasants and the land that they till and the relations of production are basically characterized by landlord oppression and exploitation...
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 491–505.
Published: 01 August 2008
... the poor peasants in Guizhou Province in southwest China are compelled to farm on steep slopes, showing that China does not have an overall strategy that takes care of the nation's environmental protection and sustainable development. Story 3. The Story of “Enclosures”: how the grave traffic jams and air...
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positions (2016) 24 (2): 435–479.
Published: 01 May 2016
... how these residents, although selfish in the beginning of the film, finally unite with each other to expel their evil landlord, who is a defeated nationalist official. After the official is forced to leave Shanghai for Taiwan, the residents...
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positions (1995) 3 (2): 510–536.
Published: 01 May 1995
... and the present was in skin pigmentation.”6 Discontent culminated in uprisings that started in Taegu on I October 1946 and spread into other areas in the South, eventually becoming the most serious outbreak of its kind since the 1894 Tonghak peasant...
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positions (2006) 14 (2): 279–309.
Published: 01 May 2006
...: The crisis is worsening the position of the Korean working class, driv- ing ever larger number of peasants off the land and hastening their pau- perization, while the urban petty bourgeoisie are being rapidly ruined. Wages are being reduced...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 431–450.
Published: 01 May 2023
... than the village collective. Who knowns if that was true? But even if it was not true, Li Jun was a big landlord. There must have been some inside trading between Li Jun and the village committee. Even though many rural migrants came to the urban village to get rich quickly, this does not mean...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 549–570.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and their landlords reacted to the abrupt eviction order. 2 Given that Daxing and nearby migrant communities were effectively dismantled within days, the extent to which they resisted was very limited. 3 This eviction remind us not to presume that all Chinese citizens bear equal status as subjects worthy...
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positions (2009) 17 (3): 465–487.
Published: 01 August 2009
... of settling peasant disputes, often by force. In August 1924, Saikai vice president Pak Ch’um-gum and other Saikai members crossed the straits to Korea after a man named Tokuda, a Japanese absentee landlord from Osaka, paid Pak to settle...
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 137–158.
Published: 01 February 2022
...), but the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), on top of which sits Xi. On May 15, 2015, 12 Citizens opened in China. By then, a little more than half a year after the Fourth Plenum, rule of law had been eroded further. At the beginning of the same month, the case of a peasant shot dead by transit police...
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 603–633.
Published: 01 August 2014
... one can clearly see the judicial praxis of “delivering law to the countryside.”3 However, from the perspective of “delivering law to the countryside,” the peasant is the “other” to the law and is thus forced to deal with the law, evade...
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positions (2000) 8 (1): 235–262.
Published: 01 February 2000
... odors: urine from the toilet, leftover food from the kitchen, and sweat and smoke from the tenants themselves. Like many cage apartments in the terri- tory, this one includes a landlord room partitioned from the other spaces. The landlord, who...
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positions (2006) 14 (2): 345–371.
Published: 01 May 2006
.... The heroine of The Human Predicament is So˘nbi, the orphaned daughter of poor peasants, who is taken in as a servant by the village landlord To˘kho, positions 14:2  Fall 2006 354 is raped by him, then flees to seek work...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 595–617.
Published: 01 August 2022
.... My landlord, Brother Che, was one of them. Brother Che was originally from Shanxi Province. In 2014, just a month before the rumor circulated in Bicun, Brother Che had invested 200,000 renminbi (about USD 30,000) in the informal rental housing business. As a nonlocal, he did not have land tenure...
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