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Maid in China : Media, Morality, and the Cultural Politics of Boundaries.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (225 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780203946404
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 640.460951
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Contents:
Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Intimate stranger: an introduction -- Part I Media production -- 2 Theater of suzhi: Dramas of new sociality on post-Mao television -- 3 Spectacles of love: The moral economy of compassionate journalism -- Part II Consumption practices -- 4 Morality or money: The gendered ethics of good living -- 5 Latent geography of the city: The poetics of inconspicuous consumption -- Part III Everyday politics -- 6 Continuum of transgression: The practicalities of everyday politics -- 7 The art of "making do": The cultural practices of the subaltern spectator -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This compelling book examines the mobility of domestic workers, at both material and symbolic levels, and of the formation and social mobility of the urban middle-class through its consumption of domestic service.
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Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Intimate stranger: an introduction -- Part I Media production -- 2 Theater of suzhi: Dramas of new sociality on post-Mao television -- 3 Spectacles of love: The moral economy of compassionate journalism -- Part II Consumption practices -- 4 Morality or money: The gendered ethics of good living -- 5 Latent geography of the city: The poetics of inconspicuous consumption -- Part III Everyday politics -- 6 Continuum of transgression: The practicalities of everyday politics -- 7 The art of "making do": The cultural practices of the subaltern spectator -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This compelling book examines the mobility of domestic workers, at both material and symbolic levels, and of the formation and social mobility of the urban middle-class through its consumption of domestic service.

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