On the Move: Women and Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China (review)

2004 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-87
Author(s):  
Satyananda J. Gabriel
Keyword(s):  
Urban Migration ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Rural To Urban Migration

scholarly journals Poor and Blank: History's Marks and the Photographies of Displacement

2010 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Schaefer
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Historical Thinking ◽  
Chinese Art ◽  
Documentary Photography ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Rural To Urban Migration ◽  
Historical Remains

Observing a conjunction between massive rural-to-urban migration and the recent documentary turn in Chinese art, this essay suggests some of the ways documentary photography works as a medium of historical thinking in contemporary China. Through the work of the photographer Zhang Xinmin, it examines the cultural politics of blankness and marked surfaces as representational strategies for exploring the intersection of historical remains and mass migration.

China’s Century

Tracing China ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen F. Siu
Keyword(s):  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Family Change ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
One Child Policy ◽  
Child Policy ◽  
Rural To Urban Migration

This essay reviews the following books: Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village 1949–1999, by Yan Yunxiang, Only Hope: Coming of Age under China’s One-Child Policy, by Vanessa Fong, and On the Move: Women in Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China, edited by Arianne M. Gaetano and Tamara Jacka.

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