..., often with no contact, and how multiple modes of waiting have become a distinctive part of children’s lives within transnational migrant communities. hbeazley@usc.edu.au jball@uvic.ca Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 migration child-centered rural childhoods temporality...

... capability, and moral understanding. In “I am Fan Yusu,” Fan's description of her rural childhood deviates pointedly from the dominant view of rural Hubei as a culturally impoverished backwater. Her older brother dreamed of becoming a writer and brought home literary classics and journals; her second...

... 2016 ). In their study of four known rural migrant-sending communities in East Lombok, Indonesia, Leslie Butt and her colleagues found a mere 12 percent rate of birth registrations among children in transnational families. Without legal documents, most children are rendered effectively stateless...

.... 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...

.... 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...

...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...

... the eye model effectively fuses physiology and optics while cutting across both in anticipation of a burgeoning visual paradigm. These two accounts—one remaining mired in a feudal past where rural myths were transmitted orally, and the other emerging as a harbinger of visual modernity through...

... 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...

... and the Building of Community Culture .” People's Food Sovereignty Network in China , November 19. http://www.shiwuzq.com/portal.php?mod=view&aid=2072 . Yan Hairong , Bun Ku Hok , and Siyuan Xu . 2020 . “ Rural Revitalization, Scholars, and the Dynamics of the Collective Future in China...

.... 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...

... that explains my interest in these propaganda posters, as they were the only works of arts I could have access during my childhood. I did not know there was a Mona Lisa; the love in my dream was the barefoot doctor in these propaganda posters.”3...

... ) 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...

... unbridled sentimentalism, it injects an implicit class antagonism with a rural subplot depicting a pair of lovers, Poon Mei-na 潘美娜 / Mina Poon—Anna's younger sister—and Lee Man (Lee Ching 李清); they recall Kitty and Levin in Anna Karenina . The humble lower-class couple conveys the virtue of rational love...

... the eminent economic historian Thomas C. Smith discussed the early modern Japanese peasant “family.” However, his principal interest was rural economic history- the changes wrought by the rise of market pro- duction on rural households...

.... This article argues that the horror revealed by such stories is one that challenges Singaporean claims to ethnic and economic supremacy in the region, as it points to a return of a perceived threat from an allochronous rural world. Each presents a particular challenge to a sealed, prosperous, “first world...