Changing Rurality in Contemporary China: Double Commodification of the Countryside

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dc.contributor.advisorBuck, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorWu, Shuxi
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-09T22:52:39Z
dc.date.available2024-01-09T22:52:39Z
dc.date.issued2024-01-09
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines contemporary rural transformations in China. I suggest that a different spatial relationship among production, reproduction, and consumption is in the making, grafted onto the urban-rural divide. A different urban-rural relationship is also in the making, shaped by changing divisions and integrations of labor that go into production, reproduction, and consumption. I argue that these two processes are occurring through a double commodification of the countryside, which produces what I call “rural commodity” and “rural-as-commodity”. “Rural commodity” refers to the ways in which products of rural labor are absorbed into urban-centered accumulation processes. “Rural-as-commodity” refers to how rurality itself has become an object of desire and exchange. These two forms of commodity collaborate to transform the urban-rural division of labor in China to facilitate accumulation. I focus specifically on rural tourism and media representations of new rurality to illustrate how these two forms of commodification converge.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/29192
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectAgrarian Studiesen_US
dc.subjectChinaen_US
dc.subjectMedia Studiesen_US
dc.subjectPolitical Economyen_US
dc.subjectRural Developmenten_US
dc.subjectVariety Showen_US
dc.titleChanging Rurality in Contemporary China: Double Commodification of the Countryside
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineInterdisciplinary Studies Program: Asian Studies
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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