{"product_id":"subaltern-china-wanning-sun-9781442236776","title":"Subaltern China: Rural Migrants, Media, and Cultural Practices","description":"Behind China's growing economic and political power is a vast underworld of marginalized social groups. In this powerful and timely book, Wanning Sun focuses on the country's hundreds of millions of rural migrant workers, who embody China's most intractable problems of inequality. Drawing on rich and extensive fieldwork, the author argues that despite the critical role their labor has played in enabling and sustaining the country's remarkable economic growth, workers and peasants have become the nation's \"subalterns.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSun focuses especially on the role of media and culture in negotiating the unequal relationships that exist between various social groups. She shows that in the face of the harsh reality of injustice and discrimination, China's rural migrants engage in media and cultural practices that are at once both mundane and profound--invariably imbued with hope and dignity, and motivated by the dream of a better life. Exploring the cultural politics of inequality in post-Mao China, this engaging and compelling book will be essential reading for all concerned with the increasing centrality of media and the cultural politics of representation in our highly digitalized and mediated world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wanning Sun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442236779\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442236776\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/11\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.69h x 5.80w x 0.91d","brand":"Wanning Sun","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44584021065983,"sku":"9781442236776","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_014e4d6c-9efe-4939-abab-7ed4fa0169ca.jpg?v=1701884817","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/subaltern-china-wanning-sun-9781442236776","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}