Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"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 *
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 Class
