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Informationen zum Autor Rachel Murphy is Senior Lecturer in East Asian Studies at the University of Bristol. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge in 1999. She is author of How Migrant Labor is Changing Rural China and co-editor of Chinese Citizenship: Views from the Margins. Her articles have appeared in China Quarterly! Population and Development Review and the Journal of Peasant Studies.Vanessa L. Fong is an assistant professorat Harvard University Graduate School of Education. She is the author of Only Hope: Coming of Age under China's One-Child Policy! which won the Francis Hsu Prize in Asian Studies! and co-editor of Chinese Citizenship: Views from the Margins and Women in Republican China. She received her PhD in anthropology from Harvard University in 2002. Klappentext How are different groups of people such as sex workers! migrant workers! rural cadres and homosexuals represented in China's media? This volume contains essays which address this and other questions by using a combination of ethnography and textual analysis. Zusammenfassung This book examines Chinese media, highlighting the richness, diversity, and sometimes contradictory tendencies of the meanings and consequences of media representations in China. This book was previously published as a special issue of Critical Asian Studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First-Century China. Introduction Vanessa L. Fong 1. Performing Media-Constructed Images for First-Class Citizenship: Political Struggles of Rural Migrant Hostesses in Dalian Tiantian Zheng 2. Migrant Workers in the Pearl River Delta: Discourse and Narratives about Work as Sites of Struggle Eric Florence 3. The Paradox of the State-Run Media Promoting Poor Governance in China: Case Studies of a Party Newspaper and an Anticorruption Film Rachel Murphy 4. Querying Queer Theory: Debating Male-Male Prostitution in the Chinese Media Elaine Jeffreys 5. The Internet and the Fragmentation of Chinese Society Jens Damm 6. SMS, Communication, And Citizenship In China's Information Society Kevin Latham 7. The New Chinese Citizen and CETV Yingchi Chu ...
