Singing on the river
Igor Iwo Chabrowski · 2015
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About the book
Singing on the river' by Igor Chabrowski, based on Sichuan boatmens work songs (haozi), explores the little known world of mentality and self-representation of Chinese workers from the late 19th century until the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937). Chabrowski demonstrates how river workers constructed and interpreted their world, work, and gender in context of the dissolving social, cultural, and political orders. Boatmen asserted their own values, bemoaned exploitation, and imagined their sexuality largely in order to cope with their low social status. Through studying the Sichuan boatmen we gain an insight into the ways in which twentieth-century nonindustrial Chinese workers imagined their place in the society and appropriated, without challenging them, the traditional values.
Book details
- Year
- 2015
- Language
- English
- Series
- China studies -- volume 32
- Publisher
- Brill
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 311
- ISBN
- 9789004305632
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