Bar Factory (South China City Culture Study)

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 investigations, and the second part is field investigation essays. These two parts complement each other through participatory research, delving deeply into the working class of 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 their efforts to integrate into the urban life of the places where they work, with urban middle class as their life ideal. However, due to the lack of a voice, they face various confusions. The book focuses on the interactive relationship between production and consumption, thoroughly and comprehensively exploring the internal mechanisms of urban culture. It transforms abstract cultural principles and scattered cultural phenomena into real cultural events and their multiple meanings, demonstrating the dense network structure formed by the interweaving of specific timespace places through interactions both within and outside social groups.