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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
...Lei Guang 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Rural Taste, Urban Fashions: The Cultural Politics of Rural/Urban
Difference in Contemporary China
Lei Guang
Speaking of workers and peasants, the workers have relatively more cultureWe
can’t say...
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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
... such knowledge is important, since these domains, though intimate and private, are crucial sites of socioeconomic exchange. In light of such challenges, how can ethnographers “get at” the emotional experiences of rural migrants outside standard frameworks? This article engages with this question through...
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Protecting the Body, Living the Good Life: Negotiating Health in Rural Lowland Laos
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 151–170.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Elizabeth M. Elliott Abstract In rural lowland Laos, aspirations to a good life and visions of well-being are defined and impacted by the process of negotiating health. The state of sabai (well-being) situates the person in relation to their family, social, and spiritual worlds, and the associated...
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A Changing Representation: “Personal Writing” in Artistic Intervention in Chinese Rural Communities
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 713–744.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Danzhou Li Abstract As socially engaged art has played a vibrant role in responding to the crisis of the postmodernist art regime, the current post-Occupy condition has manifested itself in artistic interventions in rural China. In contrast to social writing , which encompasses street art...
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Breaking with the Family Form: Historical Categories, Social Reproduction, and Everyday Life in Late 1950s Rural China
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positions (2021) 29 (4): 869–894.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Alexander F. Day Abstract This article explores the way PRC historians use analytical categories by looking at the emergence of a divide between production and the social reproduction of labor (all the work that goes into producing and raising laborers) that transformed and structured rural...
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 543–550.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Lili Lai This collection of mostly ethnographic studies of rural China, with some contributions from the rather different discourse world of Chinese anthropology, seeks to bring into visibility the heterogeneity of life in the countryside. They argue that rural China must first and foremost...
View articletitled, Guest Editor's Introduction: The Local Intimacies of China's <span class="search-highlight">Rural</span>-Urban Divide
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From Metaphors of Empire to Enactments of State: Popular Religious Movements and Health in Rural North China
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 573–602.
Published: 01 August 2014
... practices in a rural township in Hebei Province. Like many other places in the People's Republic of China, the township has seen a revival of popular religion in recent decades. This revival has often been described as a rebounding and selective adaptation of traditions that had been suppressed...
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Everyday Hygiene in Rural Henan
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 635–659.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Lili Lai The phenomenon of “modernization indoors, dirt and chaos outdoors” ( shinei xiandaihua, shiwai zangluancha ) is now prevalent all over rural China. This article attends to the political and economic roots and social determinants of “dirty villages,” aiming to show how people's...
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Beyond the Brokers: Local Marriage Migration Industries of Rural Vietnam
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 71–96.
Published: 01 February 2016
... rural villages in two provinces of Vietnam between March and December of 2012, this essay relies on the narratives of actors involved in the local industry, such as a wedding shop owner, a language trainer, and guesthouse owners, as well as interviews with local government representatives, parents...
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Four Stories in One: Environmental Protection and Rural Reconstruction in China
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 491–505.
Published: 01 August 2008
... in grassroots research work, tells four cautionary stories in order to expound on the question of the institutional cost induced by the “rural-urban dichotomy” and the fundamental systemic contradictions in China, as well as to discuss the rural reconstruction efforts that he has embarked on as an endeavor...
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Rural Women and Social Change in New China Cinema: From Li Shuangshuang to Ermo
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positions (2003) 11 (3): 647–674.
Published: 01 August 2003
...Xiaobing Tang 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Rural Women and Social Change in New China Cinema:
From Li Shuangshuang to Ermo
Xiaobing Tang
The title of this essay may sound slightly clichéd, since it would be extremely
hard to find a film in New...
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Geometries of Fractals and Power: Transnational Marriages, Translocal Marriages, and Asia's Global Ruralities
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 15–40.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Linh Khanh Nguyen Abstract In much of the mobilities literature, a dichotomy exists between the urban and rural. The bulk of studies view the urban as a receiving center, one that is cosmopolitan, diverse, and dynamic, while conflating the rural into its opposite: a backward, boring, and unchanging...
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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
...Yang Zhan Abstract For decades, Chinese rural migrants have been understood as engaging in dagong 打工 (working for a boss), or the selling of their waged labor, conditioned by the global production chain, dormitory regimes, and exploitive labor relations within and beyond factories. Meanwhile...
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Epistemic Labor: Narratives of Hyper-Uncertainty and Future-Making on China's Urban Fringe
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 431–450.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Yang Zhan Abstract This article conceptualizes storytelling as epistemic labor that is critical to the everyday meaning-making and future-making of Chinese rural migrants. Compared to stories told by scholars and migrants turned writers and artists, those told by migrants in a quotidian setting...
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Calculating Needs and Prescribing Properties: Chaiqian and the Commensuration of Value at Nanjing's Urban Edge
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 501–521.
Published: 01 August 2022
... fieldwork, this article shows that, contrary to popular imaginings, chaiqian in Nanjing do not exclude peasants from urban development but seek to exploit the uneven urban and rural property regimes and bring rural spaces, including people, real estate, and crops, into the urban system. The government...
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Tu Er Dai Peasant Landlords and the Infrastructures of Accumulation in Guangzhou's Urban Villages
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 479–499.
Published: 01 August 2022
... unmaking of the Maoist peasant classes entails the emaciation of rural populations, as Yan Hairong has described, through the intensified extraction and exploitation of the migrant classes. The tu er dai is a place-based group of former peasants who have quickly elevated to the rentier class thanks...
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The Production of Everyday Space for Workers: The New Village Movement in China, 1919–1936
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 429–453.
Published: 01 August 2022
... with the conservative recovery of an ideal rural community, in an attempt to overcome social inequality and the urban exploitation of the rural caused by capital accumulation. 2 The Nationalist Government refers to the government of the Republic of China (1912–49) between July 1, 1925 and May 20, 1948, led...
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The Dark Side of the Miracle: Spectacular and Precarious Accumulation in an Urban Village under Siege (A Photo Essay)
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 523–547.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Tong Lam Abstract In spite of their informal and substandard nature, Chinese urban villages are actually part of the infrastructure that institutionalizes and normalizes China's uneven development by providing cheap dormitory-style accommodations to the country's vast army of unskilled rural...
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Who Makes the City? Beijing's Urban Villages as Sites of Ideological Contestation
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 455–477.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Jane Hayward; Małgorzata Jakimów Abstract Inside Beijing are hundreds of urban villages. Originally farming villages, now engulfed by urban expansion, they persist due to China's segregated urban-rural property system. Inhabitants are often still classed as peasants, despite being inside the city...
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Grassroots Perspectives on Relocation: Threats and Opportunities
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 661–689.
Published: 01 August 2014
.... However, their perspectives on urbanization, development, and displacement are complex. This article provides some ethnographic context for the widely discussed related topics of land disputes and compensation. Based on fieldwork in rural Sichuan, it examines how the selection of agricultural areas...
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