空間、科技、與聲音：新老工人階級文化空間的比較研究

Working class cultural spaces: Comparing the old and the new Hongzhe Wang & Jack Linchuan Qiu

Cultural transformation is central to class formation. By culture, which in this paper is related to space, technology, and voice , we understand the distinctive ways of expressing, articulating, and reproducing working-class life that are essential to the class identity and class consciousness of China's working classes, old and new. This paper analyzes two workers' cultural spaces, in Anshan and Beijing's Pi Village, respectively, with examinations of the physical space, the digital networked space, and the voices therein. Empirical data are gathered through repeated site visits, interviews with key local actors, participant observation in workers' cultural events (offline), and observation of workers' online communication patterns. Methodologically, this paper tries to develop a more refined comparative framework, which offer a revision for the theoretical articulation among space, technology, and class formation in China.