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Love Troubles: Inequality in China and its Intimate Consequences

Love Troubles: Inequality in China and its Intimate Consequences


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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.



Table of Contents:

Introduction. Love Troubles
Governing Romance
Chapter 1. Rural Migrants’ Marital Problems and the Discourse of Governing
Chapter 2. From Revolution to Consumption: The Cultural Politics of the Future
Moral Economy of Love
Chapter 3. “Love on the Assembly Line”: The Clichés of Romantic Consumption
Chapter 4. Dark Intimacy and Its Moral-Economic Logic
Men, Women and the Pursuit of Intimacy
Chapter 5. Making Choices or Making Compromises: Women and the Onus of Intimacy Work
Chapter 6. “Left Leftover Men and their Masculine Grievance: Making Sense of Rural Migrant
Men’s Emotional Hardships
Conclusion



About the Author :

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).



Review :
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. As Wanning Sun explains in ... this important pathbreaking study of the personal lives of the new Chinese proletariat, we might well conclude that if love really is chicken soup for the soul, those at the bottom of China’s social and economic heap struggle for a sip. [Love Troubles] fills an important gap in knowledge about the intimate consequences of social inequality, a widespread but unnoticed problem in a rapidly modernizing and urbanizing China. It not only reveals the myriad ways in which political, social, economic, cultural, and moral forces conspire to disrupt rural migrant workers’ pursuit of love and intimacy but also offers a new useful analytical approach to examining social inequality through the lens of personal affect, in which romance and intimacy are intimately intertwined with inequity in a socially and economically stratified China. Reading this important, pathbreaking study of the personal lives of the new Chinese proletariat, we might well conclude that if love really is chicken soup for the soul, those at the bottom of China’s social and economic heap struggle for a sip.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781350329645
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Height: 232 mm
  • No of Pages: 212
  • Sub Title: Inequality in China and its Intimate Consequences
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1350329649
  • Publisher Date: 31 Oct 2024
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Weight: 354 gr


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