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Singing on the river : Sichuan boatmen and their work songs, 1880s-1930s
- Title
- Singing on the river : Sichuan boatmen and their work songs, 1880s-1930s / by Igor Iwo Chabrowski.
- Author
- Chabrowski, Igor Iwo
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
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- Description
- ix, 311 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map; 25 cm
- 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.
- Series Statement
- China studies ; volume 32
- Uniform Title
- China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 32.
- Subject
- Note
- "Revised and enlarged version of an EUI Ph.D. thesis "'Tied to a boat by the sound of a gong' : world, work and society seen through the work songs of Sichuan Boatmen (1880s-1930s)"" -- Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-295) 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.
- Call Number
- JME 16-41
- ISBN
- 9789004305632
- 9004305637
- 9789004305649 (canceled/invalid)
- 9004305645 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015027421
- OCLC
- 914296273
- Author
- Chabrowski, Igor Iwo, author.
- Title
- Singing on the river : Sichuan boatmen and their work songs, 1880s-1930s / by Igor Iwo Chabrowski.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- China studies ; volume 32China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 32.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-295) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JME 16-41