Love troubles : Inequality in China and its intimate consequences / Wanning Sun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sun, Wanning, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic conditions.

Equality--China.

Equality.

Social change--China.

Social change.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350329638

1350329630

9781350329621

1350329622

9781350329614

1350329614

OCLC:

1371777668