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Cultural Expression and Subjectivity of Chinese Peasants Sha Yao

Cultural Expression and Subjectivity of Chinese Peasants By Sha Yao

Cultural Expression and Subjectivity of Chinese Peasants by Sha Yao


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This volume investigates how Chinese peasants express their culture and adapt to social change. The author's research consists of participant observation and interviews of shadow puppetry artists in Guanzhong, China, illustrating how peasant artists have adapted to the historical and social changes.

Cultural Expression and Subjectivity of Chinese Peasants Summary

Cultural Expression and Subjectivity of Chinese Peasants by Sha Yao

i) This work can help readers to understand the generation mechanism, the characteristics of Chinese farmers' cultural subjectivity, and the track of the changes of Chinese social structure in the 20th century.
ii) The author proposes a creative research method labelled as subject-time-space.
iii) This title has been selected as a required reading in many prestigious universities in China, including Tsinghua University, Sichuan University, Zhengzhou University, Yunnan University, and Henan University.

About Sha Yao

Sha Yao is an associate professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and an associate research fellow at the Institute of Journalism and Communication, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China. He focuses his research on rural communication, communication ethnography, the political economy of communication, and so on.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction. 2. Overview of Fieldwork. 3. 1956: Rediscovery of Peasant Culture. 4. 1963: Socialist Expression of Peasant Culture. 5. 1984: The Disintegration of the Production Team and the Decline of Rural Culture. 6. 2006: Illusionary Prosperity of Peasant Culture in the Discourse of Intangible Cultural Heritage. 7. Communication: Rediscovering the Countryside. Conclusion: A Sick Oyster Bears Pearls: An Unfinished Story.

Additional information

NLS9781032039312
9781032039312
1032039310
Cultural Expression and Subjectivity of Chinese Peasants by Sha Yao
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2023-01-09
204
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