In this book, Wanning Sun illuminates the harsh reality of inequality and discrimination that China's rural migrant workers face every day, and how these workers use available media to negotiate these injustices. This book is essential reading for all concerned with the growing use of media in the cultural politics of our highly digitalized world.

Part I: Context, Method, and Framework
Chapter 1: Configuring the Nongmingong
Chapter 2: The Chinese Subaltern
Part II: Hegemonic Mediations
Chapter 3: News Values, Stability Maintenance, and the Politics of Voice
Chapter 4: Urban Cinema and the Limits of Harmony Production
Part III: Subaltern Politics
Chapter 5: Documentary Videos, Cultural Activism, and Alternative History
Chapter 6: Digital-Political Literacy and Photography as Self-Ethnography
Part IV: Cultural Brokering
Chapter 7: Worker-Poets, Political Intervention, and Cultural Brokering
Chapter 8: Dagong Literature and a New Sexual-Moral Economy
Conclusion