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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Roberta ZavorettiPublisher: University of Washington Press Imprint: University of Washington Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.476kg ISBN: 9780295999241ISBN 10: 0295999241 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 01 December 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Paradigm of Rural to Urban Migration in Contemporary China 1. Who Is a “Peasant Worker”? 2. Speaking of Oneself 3. A Place of Encounters 4. Earning, Spending, Consuming 5. Negotiating Success Conclusion: Making Place, Making ClassReviewsRural Origins, City Lives does what good ethnography should do: it brings us into the grounded, life worlds of others in a way that forces us to question our broader assumptions and the categories that those assumptions are based on. That alone makes it a worthwhile and rewarding book. -- Tim Oakes * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies * Paints a compelling, sensitive and nuanced picture of who China’s migrant workers are. . . . An enjoyable and rewarding read. * China Quarterly * Succeeds in showing that the category ‘peasant worker’ is much more heterogeneous than official and popular discourses suggest. * Anthropology of Work Review * Rural Origins, City Lives does what good ethnography should do: it brings us into the grounded, life worlds of others in a way that forces us to question our broader assumptions and the categories that those assumptions are based on. That alone makes it a worthwhile and rewarding book. -- Tim Oakes * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies * Author InformationRoberta Zavoretti is a lecturer of social and cultural anthropology at the University of Cologne. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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