Digital and Data Humanities Summer Fellowships Cohort Archive

Inter-Mapping China’s Labor Migration and Labor Movement: Gendered Labor, Resistance, and Narrative of Forestry Workers, 1950s-2010s

This project maps labor migration and labor resistance in the history of People’s Republic of China (1949-present), with gender and industry as key factors. I propose to use digital mapping tools to relationally present labor migration, workers’ collective activities, and forestry development over the last 60 plus years. Putting these independently studied fields together via digital tools, I expect to present their interrelations as a critical engagement with current scholarship and digital mapping projects that represent selective data collected without consideration of these factors.