... , no. 1 : 1 – 10 . Beazley Harriot . 2007 . “ The ‘Malaysian Orphans’ of Lombok: Children and Young People's Livelihood Responses to Out-Migration in Eastern Indonesia .” In Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth: Young Rural Lives , edited by Panelli Ruth , Punch Samantha...

... with surprising lightness. Her use of irony and humor display an audacity that may be unique to the subaltern: an awareness that since they have lived with pain and hard work, there is little else to fear. In “I am Fan Yusu,” Fan's description of her rural childhood deviates pointedly from the dominant view...

... mothers in mass media. Migrant mothers in the urban villages of China have learned and internalized this ideology of intensive mothering along with their rural-to-urban migration through reading and interactions with medical and educational experts. Based on eight months of ethnographic research in two...

... at the Frontiers of Nation-States , edited by Ishii Sari K. , 118 – 34 . Singapore : National University of Singapore Press . James Allison , Jenks Chris , and Prout Alan . 1998 . Theorizing Childhood . Cambridge, UK : Polity Press . Jeong Yu-Jin , You Hyun-Kyung...

.... Since under these circumstances, the poverty and decline of the rural area is seen as an unavoidable fate or as part of the nature of the rural area (seen in state- ments such as “in my childhood memories of the country it’s always been...

...- tion and the outpouring of emotion at Mao’s death, few of their generation positions 24:4  November 2016 796 developed a deep resentment due to the great famine experienced by their rural farming parents’ generation...

... contradict each other. Nonetheless, promises of a greener future mobilize shared notions of cooperation in exchanges of work and support between urbanites and their rural counterparts. Situated between socialist sacrifice, market service, and digital technologies, these reciprocal environmental engagements...

... in rapid deforestation. We suggest that the potential of this imaginary for socioecological criticism and alternative visions depends on social structure and historical context. While bangbot were instrumental in violent anti-colonial revolt, lending political legitimacy to rural ethnic elites, in today's...

.... But she was dissatisfied both with the job and with life in a small, poor town. After a year in Guangzhou, she was aware of the great disparity be- tween urban and rural China. “I was a cadre in my hometown, but my wage was just two hundred yuan...

... to be interpreted in the context of the stringency of China’s birth policy and the state’s economic reforms,which have set up compelling reasons for ensuring the birth of at least one son in order for the rural household to reproduce itself. Moreover...

... on her well-being but also on the life of her aging mother, who has no housing of her own and cannot access a husband's property or income. Hong, conversely, attempts to postpone marriage precisely on the basis of her allegiance to her own kin. A working-class young woman of rural origin, she lives...

... are wide-ranging, they do follow a certain order and logic. Temporally, the essay begins with anecdotes from late-Qing societies and proceeds to the moment of its composition in the mid-1920s, marked by the trendiness of Mei Lanfang's portraits. Geographically, it traces photographic practices from rural...

...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...

... Square, and where, simultaneously, women in rural areas still follow rules of inequality — for instance, they have to put on a sadder per- formance as the crying mourners (in comparison to the male relatives) at a funeral yet are forbidden to go...

... workers. In 2017, seeing the decline in the countryside and the aggravation of the global ecological crisis, Lü’s focus began to shift to rural development and environmental protection. Besides the Village Song Project introduced in this talk, she also participates in programs of the China New Rural...

.... In an originally color photo depicting a Tibetan family (fig. 4), the young parents and their two small children — ­a girl and a boy — ­sit together in a cozy corner of their rural dwelling. The center of the photo is a radio held in the hands...

... that they are registered to. To them, the primary dispossession, that is, the eagerness to rip off the rural part of them, has started since childhood and will last their whole lives. First, the second generation have never internalized any xiangtu cul- ture, which has been ruined by (post)modernization. Second, they have...

... service labor in a Walmart retail outlet as an opportunity to reinvent their bodies (already imprinted with the effects of a childhood of rural work) as legibly modern and urbanely feminine. These young female cosmetics reps readily appropriate...

... of self-representation? Perhaps the question to ask of the text is, what truth does it distort? If the woman warrior Fa Mulan; the Monkey of the childhood classic Journey to the West; China’s language, culture, and history; the heroes...

... ) project on “childhood as spectacle” articulates the ways in which children might be seen as “accumulation strategy, as commodity, as ornament and as waste” (2017: 3). She writes: “These kinds of practices smuggle with them an almost magical ‘investment’ in the child as oneself, one's future...