Chapter 1: China’s Challenges: Reform Era Legacies and the Road Ahead

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Keyword(s):  
Reform Era ◽  
The Road

The Worker Class: From Leader to the Margins

2018 ◽  
pp. 20-47
Author(s):  
Corey Kai Nelson Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Reform Era ◽  
The Past

Chapter 1 analyzes the representation of the worker figure. This was the class that was created in the Maoist period to develop the nation and serve as the “vanguard” of the Maoist state, but now its members are wretched and are in the process of being replaced by migrant workers (mingong) without the former worker figure’s previous status, skills, or power. It examines the feelings that the figures stimulate in the films, which range from pride to shame, adulation to pity, development to ruin, and progress to decay, and notes how their previous status as “builders” of the nation is juxtaposed with the films’ depictions of the ruin, a motif that is attached specifically to this class. It argues that the film 24 City commemorates the factory and the worker class through its use of “portraits in performance” and “memories in performance,” arguing that, although they commemorate the factory and its members, they produce a structure of feeling of nostalgia that ultimately elegizes this group’s irreversible decline and disappearance in the Reform era and resigns them to the past.

Further on Down the Road, Blurring Genres

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. W. Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Richard Rorty ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
The Political ◽  
British Government ◽  
Politics And Government ◽  
The Road ◽  
Interpretive Approach

Chapter 1 is a short biographical exercise describing the author’s journey from policy networks and governance (see Volume I) to the interpretive turn and ethnography. It tells the story of how the author sought to work out the implications of anti-foundational philosophy for the study of politics, especially British government and public administration. It also introduces the notion of blurring genres or drawing on the genres of thought and presentation common in the humanities. The chapter argues, following Richard Rorty, that an interpretive approach grounded in observational fieldwork is about edification—a way of finding new, better, more interesting, fruitful ways of speaking about politics and government (Rorty 1980: 360). The author believes an interpretive approach provides a new and better way of speaking about political science and public administration. The author is also convinced that observation continues to be an underused but vital part of the political scientists’ toolkit.

Character

Picture World ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 21-83
Author(s):  
Rachel Teukolsky
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Urban Economy ◽  
Reform Era ◽  
Realist Novel ◽  
Lower Middle Class ◽  
History Of

“Character” is often studied as the deep psychological self crafted by the nineteenth-century realist novel. Yet Chapter 1 proposes an alternative history of character by looking to caricature, in some of the earliest comics (“Galleries of Comicalities”) appearing in sporting newspapers in the 1830s. Early caricatures portrayed an idea of character that was grotesque, masculinist, and brilliantly exteriorized, especially in depictions of “the cockney,” the urban mischief-man whose subversive masculinity reflected the economic pressures of the new urban economy. Cartoons featuring the cockney were anti-authoritarian, carnivalesque, and often laced with crude racism and misogyny. Their mock-violent energy gave voice to some of the explosive frustration felt by working- and lower-middle-class men after the failures of the Reform Bill of 1832. The young Charles Dickens borrowed many of his earliest subjects from extant caricature motifs, reflecting some of the fundamental instabilities of social class and economic precarity defining the Reform Era.

Chapter 1

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Émile Zola
Keyword(s):  
The Road

Through the deep silence of the deserted avenue, the carts made their way towards Paris, the rhythmic jolting of the wheels echoing against the fronts of the sleeping houses on both sides of the road, behind the dim shapes of elms. A cart full...

Beginnings

2020 ◽  
pp. 9-40
Author(s):  
Donna T. Haverty-Stacke
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Women Religious ◽  
World War ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
The Road ◽  
Local Parish ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Impact

Chapter 1 explores the various factors that shaped Carlson’s identity as a working-class Catholic young woman who was committed to social justice. These included her natal family and childhood neighborhood, her local parish, her women religious teachers, and the impact of World War I and the 1922 shopmen’s strike. Through her experience of World War I, as a working-class Irish and German girl, she had come to question government authority and the 100 percent Americanism that vigilante groups imposed on the community in St. Paul. As a result of her father’s experiences during the shopmen’s strike, she deepened her understanding of the importance of worker solidarity. And Grace came to appreciate early on the importance of education for the development of her autonomy. It was not only her mother, Mary Holmes, who instilled that lesson but also her women religious instructors in high school. The Josephites reinforced the value Grace placed on higher education as a route to economic independence for women and set her feet on the road to a professional career.

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