Scattered Sand The Story of China's Rural Migrants

Name: Scattered Sand The Story of China's Rural Migrants
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ISBN: 9781781680902

ISBN-10: 1781680906

ISBN-13: 9781781680902

Edition: 2nd 2013

Authors: Hsiao-Hung Pai, Gregor Benton

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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;…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 6/4/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Gregor Benton, translator, teaches in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds, England, and has translated and edited numerous politically important Chinese books.