| Author |
Chabrowski, Igor Iwo,
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| Series |
China Studies |
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China Studies.
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| Subject |
Work songs -- China -- Sichuan Sheng -- History and criticism.
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Boaters (Persons) -- China -- Sichuan Sheng -- Social conditions.
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Sichuan Sheng (China) -- Social life and customs.
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| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 311 pages). |
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polychrome rdacc |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The social origins of the songs -- The sounds of the river -- Mapping the river world -- Where do we belong -- On women and love. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Singing on the river' by Igor Chabrowski, based on Sichuan boatmen's work songs (haozi), explores the little known world of mentality and self-representation of Chinese workers from the late 19th century until the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937). Chabrowski demonstrates how river workers constructed and interpreted their world, work, and gender in context of the dissolving social, cultural, and political orders. Boatmen asserted their own values, bemoaned exploitation, and imagined their sexuality largely in order to cope with their low social status. Through studying the Sichuan boatmen we gain an insight into the ways in which twentieth-century nonindustrial Chinese workers imagined their place in the society and appropriated, without challenging them, the traditional values. |
| ISBN |
9789004305649 (electronic bk.) |
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9004305645 (electronic bk.) |
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9789004305632 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
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9004305637 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN/ISSN |
10.1163/9789004305649 |
| OCLC # |
921988171 |
| Additional Format |
Print version: Chabrowski, Igor Iwo. Singing on the river. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015] 9789004305632 (DLC) 2015027421 (OCoLC)914296273 |
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