Contesting Inequalities

Siyuan Yin is Assistant Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University.

"This book makes vital contributions to scholarship on China, specifically on the searing social inequalities in the country today, on labor activism, and on social forms of media as potential sites of activist resistance among minoritized groups. Yin does an excellent job of analyzing how these emergent forms of media importantly create changes in consciousness and enable new forms of contestation and challenges to various hegemonic powers (state, market, patriarchy)." -Lisa Rofel, University of California, Santa Cruz "This compelling book explores how rural migrant workers in China are using innovative forms of mediated labor activism to resist inequality and fight for justice. Through rich ethnographic research and sharp analysis, Yin reveals the transformative power of cultural production, performance, and digital media in fostering collective resistance and reimagining worker identities in contemporary China." -Ya-Wen Lei, Harvard University "With breadth and depth, passion and compassion, Siyuan Yin offers a situated analysis of various forms of rural migrant workers' mediated labor activism that deepens our understanding of how these networked practices serve as a form of counter-power with long-term transformative possibilities. Yin's deployment of an intersectional feminist lens and her commitment to social justice should encourage all who read this book to believe that another world is truly possible." -Cara Wallis, University of Michigan