Eating bitterness : stories from the front lines of China's great urban migration

Eating bitterness : stories from the front lines of China's great urban migration /

Every year over 200 million peasants flock to China's urban centers, providing a profusion of cheap labor that helps fuel the country's staggering economic growth. Award-winning journalist Michelle Dammon Loyalka follows the trials and triumphs of eight such migrants-including a vegetable...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Loyalka, Michelle Dammon, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012
Subjects:
Rural-urban migration > China > History.
Migration, Internal > China > History.
China > Social conditions > 1976-2000.
China > Social conditions > 2000-
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The veggie vendors
  • The impenetrable knife sharpener
  • The teenage beauty queens
  • The ever-floating floater
  • The landless landlords
  • The nowhere nanny
  • The opportunity spotter
  • The big boss.

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