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China's rise over the past several decades has lifted more than half of its population out of poverty and reshaped the global economy. What has caused this dram
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Rachel Murphy explores Chinese children's experience of having migrant parents and the impact this has on family relationships in China.
Swallows and Settlers
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Between the 1890s and the Second World War, twenty-five million people traveled from the densely populated North China provinces of Shandong and Hebei to seek e
Eating Bitterness
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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
A Floating City of Peasants
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The largest migration in history is taking place in China today, off the radar of the world's major media. Since the 1990s at least 120 million Chinese peasants