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A people on the move
2011-06-01 10:11
In 1983, Zhen Zhicheng, then 6 years old, was free as a bird in the steep mountains of Hubei province, where his parents, both Beijing natives, had been living since 1970 alongside tens of thousands mobilized from around China to work at the No 2 Automobile Plant in the small town of Shiyan.
From banned workers to people with social problems
2011-06-01 10:11
The late American anthropologist Clifford Geertz once described a result of "agricultural involution", which was caused by internal pressures due to population growth, as increasing labor intensity in the paddy fields. China's agriculture faced the same problem, and its farmers were bound to the farmland for thousands of years.
Moving tales from my migrant beat
2011-06-01 10:11
The sheer scale and radical nature of transformations in China in the past century suggest that very few could claim not to be migrants of one sort or another.

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Geng Jiasheng, 54, a national master technician in the manufacturing industry, is busy working on improvements for a new removable environmental protection toilet, a project he has been devoted to since last year.

A people on the move

From banned workers to people with social problems

Moving tales from my migrant beat