| This project is a practice of critical urban theory with a focus on “possibility” that Neil Brenner discussed in his article “What Is Critical Urban Theory?”.[ Neil Brenner, “What Is Critical Urban Theory?,” City 13, no. 2-3 (June 2009): 198-207, https://doi.org/10.1080/13604810902996466.] Jon R. Taylor discusses the China Dream as a method of Urbanization[ Jon R. Taylor, “The China Dream Is an Urban Dream: Assessing the CPC’s National New-Type Urbanization Plan,” Journal of Chinese Political Science 20, no. 2 (May 24, 2015): 107-20, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-015-9341-7.], and the process of urbanization reflects the impact of the China Dream on the migrant worker. By looking at the migrant workers of different ages and generations in Kunshan, this project discusses an alternative point of view towards the China Dream in terms of urban migration. Migrant workers are facing the reality that their futures have been determined by the policies. Their dreams of a better tomorrow are deeply bound with the political China Dream, resulting in the end of their own dreams as fantasies. People should have different dreams. They should not be told to dream in a certain way, at a certain place, for a certain reason, as they are being asked to now. |
