Aphasia and Voices of a Class
A theoretical angle of parallax on Chinese young female labourers
Pan Yi
2005
Open Times
Young female laborers have become a workforce that forecasts a new form of social resistance and a new round of “silent social revolution” at the grassroot level of society. In the radically transforming, post-social China, where a new body of workforce is taking shape, class construction and class deconstruction are going hand in hand. The formation of the new working class has brought about a new type of social violence, thus posing a serious political problem that transcends the old resistance theories of individual or collective actions, non-political or political conflicts, local or global struggles.