The ‘Inferior’ Talk Back: Suzhi (Human Quality), Social Mobility, and E-Commerce Economy in China.
Rural migrants in Chinese cities are often stigmatized as ‘low-suzhi’ population and marginalized in urban social hierarchy. Existing scholarship has demonstrated how urbanities used suzhi discourse to justify their exploitation of migrants while maintaining class distinctions, and how migrants embr...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Contemporary China Vol. 27; no. 114; pp. 887 - 902 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Nov2018
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