The Cliffhangers: Suicide shows and the aesthetics of protest in China
Over the last couple of decades, workers in China’s vast and poorly regulated construction industry have increasingly turned to suicidal performance as a radical means of securing wage arrears. These so-called “suicide shows” have drawn attention as expressions of escalating labor unrest in China, a...
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Duke University Press
2020
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