東華大學圖書館 |

語系: 繁體中文

說明(常見問題)

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

登入

回首頁

切換: 標籤 | MARC模式 | ISBD

Urban Strangers: Representations of ...

Yang, Qian.

FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Urban Strangers: Representations of Migrant Workers in Contemporary Chinese Literature, Film, and Popular Culture.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Urban Strangers: Representations of Migrant Workers in Contemporary Chinese Literature, Film, and Popular Culture./
作者:	Yang, Qian.
面頁冊數:	373 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-07A(E).
標題:	Asian studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3682996
ISBN:	9781321568837

Urban Strangers: Representations of Migrant Workers in Contemporary Chinese Literature, Film, and Popular Culture.
Yang, Qian.

Urban Strangers: Representations of Migrant Workers in Contemporary Chinese Literature, Film, and Popular Culture. - 373 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

In Chinese cultural tradition, there is a classic division between rural narrative and urban narrative. However, the emergent social, economic and cultural phenomenon of migrant workers in the post-Mao period has challenged this binary system of rural/urban narratives. Traditionally, the study of the rural narrative has focused on works describing village life and peasants, and therefore has not regarded texts of rural-urban migration as its main research target. Similarly, the study of the urban narrative has focused on works of city life and urbanites, in particular middle-class intellectuals and youth of Generation X, and thus also has excluded stories of rural migrants from its field. As a result, a large body of literary and cinematic texts about rural migrants has been left out of the realm of research. My dissertation aims to clean out such a space for the previously unaddressed narrative mode, and attempts to bridge the gap between the two existing cultural traditions. I argue that in addition to the rural and the urban narratives, there is another important narrative mode---migrant narrative, centered in traditions of modern Chinese cultural history. This previously unaddressed narrative mode focuses mainly on spatiality and translocality, and needs to be understood primarily as spatial stories, for its main focus is mobility and transformation in spaces and places. Thematically, it usually explores material changes and emotional experiences in the places and locations through which notions of identity, individual expression and belonging are transformed. My research has two primary goals: (1) to provide a new insight into narrative traditions in Chinese cultural history, and establish a preliminary framework for migrant narratives by laying out representative works, writers, and filmmakers of this narrative mode, and (2) to further delve into various recurring themes and motifs about migrant workers in literature, film and TV from the 1980s to 2011, discussing the cultural, social and political significance of the narrative in contemporary China. The latter will be the major focus of my dissertation.

ISBN: 9781321568837Subjects--Topical Terms:

1571829
Asian studies.

Urban Strangers: Representations of Migrant Workers in Contemporary Chinese Literature, Film, and Popular Culture.
LDR:03164nmm a2200301 4500 001 2063332
005 20151027100454.5
008 170521s2014 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9781321568837
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI3682996
035 $a AAI3682996
040 $a MiAaPQ $c MiAaPQ
100 1 $a Yang, Qian. $3 1684219
245 1 0 $a Urban Strangers: Representations of Migrant Workers in Contemporary Chinese Literature, Film, and Popular Culture.
300 $a 373 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-07(E), Section: A.
500 $a Adviser: Michael Berry.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2014.
506 $a This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
520 $a In Chinese cultural tradition, there is a classic division between rural narrative and urban narrative. However, the emergent social, economic and cultural phenomenon of migrant workers in the post-Mao period has challenged this binary system of rural/urban narratives. Traditionally, the study of the rural narrative has focused on works describing village life and peasants, and therefore has not regarded texts of rural-urban migration as its main research target. Similarly, the study of the urban narrative has focused on works of city life and urbanites, in particular middle-class intellectuals and youth of Generation X, and thus also has excluded stories of rural migrants from its field. As a result, a large body of literary and cinematic texts about rural migrants has been left out of the realm of research. My dissertation aims to clean out such a space for the previously unaddressed narrative mode, and attempts to bridge the gap between the two existing cultural traditions. I argue that in addition to the rural and the urban narratives, there is another important narrative mode---migrant narrative, centered in traditions of modern Chinese cultural history. This previously unaddressed narrative mode focuses mainly on spatiality and translocality, and needs to be understood primarily as spatial stories, for its main focus is mobility and transformation in spaces and places. Thematically, it usually explores material changes and emotional experiences in the places and locations through which notions of identity, individual expression and belonging are transformed. My research has two primary goals: (1) to provide a new insight into narrative traditions in Chinese cultural history, and establish a preliminary framework for migrant narratives by laying out representative works, writers, and filmmakers of this narrative mode, and (2) to further delve into various recurring themes and motifs about migrant workers in literature, film and TV from the 1980s to 2011, discussing the cultural, social and political significance of the narrative in contemporary China. The latter will be the major focus of my dissertation.
590 $a School code: 0035.
650 4 $a Asian studies. $3 1571829
650 4 $a Asian literature. $3 2122707
650 4 $a Film studies. $3 2122736
690 $a 0342
690 $a 0305
690 $a 0900
710 2 $a University of California, Santa Barbara. $b East Asian Languages and Cultures. $3 2100169
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 76-07A(E).
790 $a 0035
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2014
793 $a English
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3682996