MAO, Jingyu. 2024. Intimacy as a Lens on Work and Migration: Experiences of Ethnic Performers in Southwest China. Bristol: Bristol University Press

Jingyu Mao’s book, Intimacy as a Lens on Work and Migration: Experiences of Ethnic Performers in Southwest China, offers a rare glimpse on the labour and migration that ethnic performers take on in one of Yunnan’s small-scale cities, referred to by the pseudonym Green City. Delving into the work culture of Yunnan’s ethnic minority restaurants, Mao’s book offers a thorough documentation of a group of individuals who work long, exploitative hours in the low-end economy, performing ethnic songs...