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Working as an ethnic performer Working as an ethnic performer
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Exploring the multi-layered meaning of ethnic performance Exploring the multi-layered meaning of ethnic performance
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Performing ethnicity under the cultural authority of the state Performing ethnicity under the cultural authority of the state
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Doing affective labour at the banqueting tables Doing affective labour at the banqueting tables
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Ethnic performance as a site of encounters Ethnic performance as a site of encounters
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Encountering ethnicity, gender and the rural–urban divide Encountering ethnicity, gender and the rural–urban divide
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Bordering processes – mobility, labour, and the expansion of the frontier of capital Bordering processes – mobility, labour, and the expansion of the frontier of capital
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Intimate border encounters Intimate border encounters
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Sense of entitlement to respect Sense of entitlement to respect
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Desires to be respectable and modern: off-work consumption and entertainment Desires to be respectable and modern: off-work consumption and entertainment
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Conclusion: life, work, and intimate borders Conclusion: life, work, and intimate borders
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Abstract
This chapter provides a detailed account of what ethnic performance is like at the three field sites. Ethnic performance is a form of interactive service work through which minority, rural, feminized performers encounter Han, urban, mostly male customers in a physically proximate manner, which renders their social distance even more significant. After considering different sociological frameworks, this chapter argues that ethnic performance could be best theorized as a site of encounters where performers have to constantly encounter multiple bordering processes in relation to the rural–urban divide, ethnicity, and gender. The need to constantly encounter borders through everyday work and migration has an intimate and emotional consequence for performers. It shapes their entitlement to respect and motivates them to achieve a ‘modern self’ through off-work entertainment and consumption. These intimate encounters with borders also point to the need to see work and personal life as closely related and mutually constitutive.
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