{"product_id":"rural-origins-city-lives-9780295748085","title":"Rural Origins City Lives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Paints a compelling, sensitive and nuanced picture of who China’s migrant workers are. . . . An enjoyable and rewarding read.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * China Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Succeeds in showing that the category ‘peasant worker’ is much more heterogeneous than official and popular discourses suggest.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Anthropology of Work Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRural Origins, City Lives\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Tim Oakes * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Paradigm of Rural to Urban\u003cbr\u003e Migration in Contemporary China \u003cbr\u003e 1. Who Is a “Peasant Worker”? \u003cbr\u003e 2. Speaking of Oneself \u003cbr\u003e 3. A Place of Encounters \u003cbr\u003e 4. Earning, Spending, Consuming \u003cbr\u003e 5. Negotiating Success \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Making Place, Making Class\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400896520535,"sku":"9780295748085","price":33.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780295748085.jpg?v=1730471879","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rural-origins-city-lives-9780295748085","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}