On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China Hillenbrand Margaret
On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China Hillenbrand Margaret Charismatic artists recruit desperate migrants for site-specific performance art pieces, often without compensation. Users of a video and…
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On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China Hillenbrand Margaret
Charismatic artists recruit desperate migrants for site-specific performance art pieces, often without compensation. Users of a video and livestreaming app hustle for views by eating excrement or setting off firecrackers on their genitals. Construction workers threaten on camera to jump from the top of a high-rise building if their back wages are not paid.
Margaret Hillenbrand argues that a vast underclass of Chinese workers exist in "zombie citizenship," a state of dehumanizing exile from the law and its safeguards. In these and many other recent cultural moments, China's suppressed social strife simmers--or threatens to boil over.On the Edge probes precarity in contemporary China through the lens of the dark and angry cultural forms that chronic uncertainty has generated. Many others also feel precarious--sensing that they live on a precipice, with the constant fear of