On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China Hillenbrand Margaret
Charismatic artists recruit desperate migrants for site-specific performance art pieces, often without compensation. Construction workers threaten on camera to jump from the top of a high-rise…
Specifikacia On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China Hillenbrand Margaret
Charismatic artists recruit desperate migrants for site-specific performance art pieces, often without compensation. Construction workers threaten on camera to jump from the top of a high-rise building if their back wages are not paid. Users of a video and livestreaming app hustle for views by eating excrement or setting off firecrackers on their genitals. 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. 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. Many others also feel precarious--sensing that they live on a precipice, with the constant fear of
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