Scattered sand : the story of China's rural migrants / Hsiao-Hung Pai ; preface by Gregor Benton.

  • Pai, Hsiao-Hung
Date:
2013
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About this work

Publication/Creation

London : Verso, 2013.

Physical description

xvii, 302 pages ; 22 cm

Edition

Updated with a new preface.

Notes

Edition statement from cover page 4.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-297).

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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    History of Medicine
    ZOH.251
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ISBN

  • 9781781680902
  • 1781680906