On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China

by Margaret Hillenbrand

Charismatic artists recruit desperate migrants for site-specific performance art pieces, often without compensation. Construction workers threaten on camera to jump from the top of a high-rise building if their back wages are not paid. Users of a video and livestreaming app hustle for views by eating excrement or setting off firecrackers on their genitals. In these and many other recent cultural moments, China's suppressed social strife simmers--or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231212143
• ISBN13: 9780231212144
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"