Female migrant workers’ theater, labor NGOs, and grassroots culture in China

Variations on the theme of “home”

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19233643
AutoresJustyna Jaguścik (0000-0003-1122-8775, Universität Bern, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft , Bern , Switzerland, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen76
Número4
Páginas683-709
Fecha de publicación2022-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAsiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0004-4717 • E-ISSN: 2235-5871
EditorialDe Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/asia-2022-0014
OpenAlexW4368341776
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas30

This paper explores self-representations of female migrant workers in mainland Chinese grassroots theater, understood as a localized variety of trans-Asian people’s theater. It discusses the 2018 play They Say that was created by women associated with the Shenzhen-based NGO Green Rose Community Center. The analysis of the text and its performance seeks to shed light on the multifaceted identities of the authors and performers of the play, who left the countryside for precarious work in Shenzhen’s production and service industries. Beyond offering a close reading of the play with a particular focus on the images of “home” and “homemaking,” this paper embeds female migrant workers’ cultural activities into a larger social context that is shaped by state policies, non-governmental organizations, cultural norms and values, and legacies of the socialist era

China · Context (archaeology) · Economic growth · Geography · Grassroots · Mainland China · Migrant workers · Political science · Politics · Reading (process) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Theme (computing) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Gender Studies · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy