Singing on the river: Sichuan boatmen and their work songs, 1880s-1930s

Singing on the river' by Igor Chabrowski, based on Sichuan boatmen’s 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 rive...

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1. Verfasser: Chabrowski, Igor Iwo 1982- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden Brill [2015]
Schriftenreihe:China studies Volume 32
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Zusammenfassung:Singing on the river' by Igor Chabrowski, based on Sichuan boatmen’s 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
Beschreibung:"Revised and enlarged version of an EUI Ph.D. thesis "'Tied to a boat by the sound of a gong' : world, work and society seen through the work songs of Sichuan Boatmen (1880s-1930s)"" ... Title page verso. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-295) and index
Beschreibung:IX, 311 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm
ISBN:9789004305632

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