Scattered sand : the story of China's rural migrants text
Hsiao-Hung Pai ; preface by Gregor Benton.
- 1st
- London ; Brooklyn, NY Verso 2012
- 302 p. HBK
Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-302).
Exodus: Northeast youth head for the city -- Earthquakes in bohemia: life and death in Sichuan -- Dust and heat: black mines in the Yellow River region -- The dark kilns: brickmaking in the North -- 'Bad elements': the uprooted and permanently impoverished in Shandon -- The factory of the world: recession in Guangzhou -- In the shadows of olympians: unorganized workers in Beijing -- Go west! The migration industry in rural Fujian -- Trouble on the new frontier: ethnic tensions in Xinjiang.
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Rural-urban migration - China Migrant labor - China China - Economic conditions - 21st century China - Social conditions - 21st century