Love Troubles

Inequality in China and its Intimate Consequences

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvWanning Sun,Australia) Sun, Wanning (University of Technology Sydney

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Four decades of economic reform have made China one of the most unequal countries in the world – but the impact of this inequality is not just socioeconomic. Love Troubles is the first book to examine the emotional cost of this inequality to the intimate and emotional lives of China’s people.Drawing on first-hand ethnographic research among rural migrant factory workers in the Pearl River Delta in southern China, Wanning Sun critically analyzes narratives about love, romance, and intimacy in contemporary Chinese public discourses. Examining the impact of economic and cultural inequality on private life, this book both embodies and facilitates an intimate turn in the study of China’s social change, and presents a significant intellectual intervention into worldwide debates on inequality.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-10-31
Mått156 x 234 x 12 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor212
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350329645

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
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Wanning Sun is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA). She is a member of the College of Experts, Australian Research Council (2020-2022). She is best known for her work in the fields of Chinese media and cultural studies, migration, and social change in contemporary China, and diasporic Chinese media. She is the author of four research monographs including Leaving China: Media, Migration, and Transnational Imagination (2002) and Maid in China: Media, Morality, and the Cultural Politics of Boundaries (2009).

Introduction. Love TroublesGoverning RomanceChapter 1. Rural Migrants’ Marital Problems and the Discourse of GoverningChapter 2. From Revolution to Consumption: The Cultural Politics of the FutureMoral Economy of LoveChapter 3. “Love on the Assembly Line”: The Clichés of Romantic ConsumptionChapter 4. Dark Intimacy and Its Moral-Economic LogicMen, Women and the Pursuit of IntimacyChapter 5. Making Choices or Making Compromises: Women and the Onus of Intimacy WorkChapter 6. “Left Leftover Men and their Masculine Grievance: Making Sense of Rural MigrantMen’s Emotional HardshipsConclusion

Focusing on the impacts of inequality on the affective lives of rural migrant workers and the differences between the realism and resilience of the subaltern intimacy on one hand and the elitist yet often distorted portrait of the intimate turn in social inequality on the other, Love Troubles makes a superb contribution to the studies of the moral world of migrant workers and the emotional cost of China’s rapid economic development. This brilliant, empathic, and highly sophisticated book is filled with insights from cover to cover and will likely establish itself as a new classic in the sociology of emotional inequality and cultural politics.