Villains, Victims and Aspiring Proprietors: framing 'land-losing villagers' in China's strategies of accumulation

Sargeson, Sally

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Villains, Victims and Aspiring Proprietors: framing 'land-losing villagers' in China's strategies of accumulation

Date

2012

Authors

Sargeson, Sally

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract

This paper examines how debates in the media are providing the discursive conditions for, and thereby giving impetus to, diverse strategies of 'so-called primitive accumulation' in China. Taking as its empirical referent Chinese news and journal articles