Bar Factory - South China City Culture Research

Author: Ma Jiewei
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book is divided into two parts. The first part is a collection of research papers based on field surveys, and the second part is field survey essays. These two parts complement each other through participatory research, delving into the working class in Southern China. Against the backdrop of the local urban characteristics of Southern China, it presents a vivid picture of the working life of migrant workers to readers, showing how they strive to integrate into the urban life of the places where they work, idealize an urban middle-class lifestyle, but face various dilemmas due to a lack of a voice. Focusing on the interactive relationship between production and consumption, it thoroughly and comprehensively explores the intrinsic mechanisms of urban culture, transforming abstract cultural principles and scattered cultural phenomena into real cultural events and their multiple meanings. Through interactions both within and outside social groups, it reveals the dense network structure formed by the interweaving of specific times, spaces, and places.