Hsiao-Hung Pai 
Scattered Sand [EPUB ebook] 
The Story of China’s Rural Migrants

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Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorganized workforce-’scattered sand’, in Chinese parlance-and the most marginalized and impoverished group of workers in the country. For two years, the award-winning journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai traveled across China visiting labourers on Olympic construction sites, in the coal mines and brick kilns of the Yellow River region, and at the factories of the Pearl River Delta. She witnessed the outcome of the 2009 riots in the Muslim province of Xinjiang; saw towns in rubble more than a year after the colossal earthquake in Sichuan; and was reunited with long-lost relatives, estranged since her mother’s family fled for Taiwan during the Civil War.
Scattered Sand is the result of her travels: a finely wrought portrait of those left behind by China’s dramatic social and economic advances.

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Gregor Benton is emeritus professor of Chinese history at Cardiff University. He has published many books on China and other subjects. His principal research areas are modern Chinese history, dissent under communism, and Chinese diaspora. His Mountain Fires: The Red Army’s Three-Year War in South China, 1934-1938 (1992) won several awards, including the Association of Asian Studies’ prize for the Best Book on Modern China. His translation of Mei Zhi’s Hu Feng’s Prison Years won the English Pen Award.

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Språk Engelska ● Formatera EPUB ● Sidor 256 ● ISBN 9781781684078 ● Filstorlek 1.0 MB ● Utgivare Verso ● Stad London ● Land GB ● Publicerad 2013 ● Nedladdningsbara 24 månader ● Valuta EUR ● ID 3230943 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM
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