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Eating Bitterness: Stories from the Front Lines of China’s Great Urban Migration
Michelle Loyalka
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| #976514 in Books | 2013-07-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x.70 x5.50l,.70 | File type: PDF | 280 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Strong, absorbing writing that describes the hardships faced by city-village people without infantilizing or romanticizing them|By Khrysteen Tahn|One of the best books on Chinese migrants that I've read. Many China hands might compare this to Leslie T. Chang's 'Factory Girls.' Differs in that Loyalka tells the stories of migrants in Xi'an (less developed western China as oppose||
“What Loyalka finds is fascinating. . . . Details . . . make the book read like an ethnography, with a lot of first-hand discovery, and give it lasting power as a historical record of the biggest, fastest urbanization in human history.”
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 migrantsincluding a vegetable vendor, an itinerant knife sharpener, a free-spirited recycler, and a cash-strapped motheroffering an inside look at the pain, self-sacrifice, and uncertainty underl...
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