Scattered sand : the story of China's rural migrants
By: Pai, Hsiao-Hung.
Material type: BookPublisher: USA : Verso , 2013Edition: Updated with a new preface.Description: xvii, 302 pages ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781781680902.Subject(s): Migrant labor -- China | Rural-urban migration | -- Social conditions -- 21st century | -- Economic conditionsDDC classification: 331.544
Contents:
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 -- Epilogue: Trouble on the new frontier: ethnic tensions in Xinjiang.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-297).
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 -- Epilogue: Trouble on the new frontier: ethnic tensions in Xinjiang.
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