Abstract

The article examines the aspects and meaning of the cultural practice of worker’s house (Gongyou zhijia) of Pi Village(Picun) in Beijing, focusing on how the status of Chinese workers is changing since 2000s and how cultural realities and discourse are organized and changing, Through the discussion of this article, I have stated that what the practice in Pi Village is done directly by new worker through the method of literary and artistic and that it is a practice that constitutes the commons. Above all, this is important in that it was done through discourse and practice that rejects the name “peasant who works and lives in city(Nongmingong)" given by the system and names themselves "new workers(Xingongren)." The practice of Pi Village expresses surrounding new workers are the industrial and service workers who are not peasants any more and urban workers who have the right to live, be educated and work in the city at the same time. This is a practice that reveals the problems of the uneven binary system that separates the city from the countryside, which defined them as peasants out of conformity with reality, while renaming themselves as new workers. In this regard, the case of Pi Village is a reality that takes issues with the rural-urban dichotomy.<BR> the social and historical level of China, the discourse and practice of Pi Village can be re-contextualized as revealing the problems of this uneven urban-rural binary system and carrying out the revising it directly. Through the practice of Pi Village, the relationship between urban and rural areas in China during the post-socialist period is being re-thought and re-established.

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