"Behind China's growing economic and political power is a vast underworld of marginalized social groups. In this powerful and timely book, Wanning Sun focuses on the country's hundreds of millions of rural migrant workers, who embody China's most intractable problems of inequality. Drawing on...

Introduction / Wanning Sun and Yingjie Guo -- Political power and social inequality : the impact of the state / Yingjie Guo -- Inequality and culture : a new pathway to understanding social inequality / Wanning Sun -- Between social justice and social order : the framing of inequality / David...

1. Political power and social inequality : the impact of the state / Yingjie Guo -- 2. Inequality and culture : a new pathway to understanding social inequality / Wanning Sun -- 3. Between social justice and social order : the framing of inequality / David Kelly -- 4. Temporality as trope in...

Of the many rural migrant workers who go to Chinese cities as cheap labourers, the one who interacts most intimately with urban residents is the domestic servant. In fact, precisely because of this “intimate stranger†status, the figure of the “maid†has captured the...

<span><span>In this book, Wanning Sun illuminates the harsh reality of inequality and discrimination that China's rural migrant workers face every day, and how these workers use available media to negotiate these injustices. This book is essential reading for all concerned with the growing use of media in...</span></span>