China’s reforms
please address the following questions.
- Compare and contrast the ways in which rural migrants and urban residents seek to achieve their aspirations for class mobility.
- How does each pursue a project of “self–development” and their desire to embody a modern subjectivity? How do theyenvision their place in the ideological world picture of the reform period?
- What are the structural aspects at work in creating the growing economic disparity between urban and rural residents.
Ground your comparisons with specific examples drawn from the readings and films.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP61LwODTnY
Answer preview
Communism is lost in China. From the death of the CCP chairman, Mao Zedong economic strength of the nation has increased but the gap between the rich and the poor widen. The social class is intact and maintains a potential to expand even further. From the film directed by Weijun Chen, it’s clear that some of the services in education that are available in the urban Centre’s is only a dream for those in the rural areas. Those in the rural regions seek to get out of poverty and education is not as assured as it was before. With the private college facilities in the rural areas that are very expensive the poor are not even lucky to get a job…
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