The last three decades have seen dramatic changes in Chinese cities.While many tend to read these changes as the result of institutional reforms, macro planning, and top-down development, the author of this study focuses on the undercurrent at the bottom, from the margin, and without voice. Based on immersive fieldwork, she explores how a different place was created through the everyday life practices of rural migrants in two Chinese urban villages. Readers are invited to dive into a small, marginal, yet intricate and vibrant neighbourhood, where thousands of �rural outsiders� found their settlement in the city. In this border space between the rural and the urban, place-making was not merely the government�s redevelopment plan that would sooner or later demolish the whole area, it was also a dynamic process unfolding through people�s everyday doing and living, such as their housing practices, street gathering, boiler house visits, public telephone calls, television consumption, and festival celebration. Featured by its cross-disciplinary horizon and intimate documentation, the present work exhibits an exemplary locale of a �progressive sense of place� in contemporary China and provides original insights in how people�s everyday life acts as an alternative arena of the politics of place-making between multiple forces. Additional ISBNs 9783034314923, 9783035107562, 3034314922, 3035107564A Different Place in the Making: The Everyday Life Practices of Chinese Rural Migrants in Urban Villages 1st Edition is written by Yan Yuan and published by Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften. ISBNs for A Different Place in the Making are 9783035196672, 3035196672 and the print ISBNs are 9783034314923, 3034314922. Additional ISBNs include 3034314922, 3035107564, 9783034314923, 9783035107562.
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