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Maid in China : media, morality, and the cultural politics of boundaries

By Wanning Sun

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2008
ISBN
9780415392105, 9780203946404, 0415392101, 0203946405
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3137043 bytes)
Series
Routledge studies in Asia's transformations
Pages
225\225
Time added
2013-04-15 18:00:00

Description

'Maid In China' examines the mobility of domestic workers, at both material and symbolic levels, and of the formation and social mobility of the urban middle-class through its consumption of domestic service. Intimate stranger : an introduction -- Theater of suzhi : dramas of new sociality on post-Mao television -- Spectacles of love : the moral economy of compassionate journalism -- Morality or money : the gendered ethics of good living -- Latent geography of the city : the poetics of inconspicuous consumption -- Continuum of transgression : the practicalities of everyday politics -- The art of "making do" : the cultural practices of the subaltern spectator

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