Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants - Rilegato

Pai, Hsiao-Hung

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ISBN 10: 1844678865 ISBN 13: 9781844678860

Casa editrice: Verso Books, 2012

Riassunto

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 travelled 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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Recensione:

Praise for Chinese Whispers: 'An incredibly moving book that in turn angers and saddens and above all makes you want to change things.' --Nick Broomfield

'An extraordinary, gut-wrenching expose.' --Independent

'Utterly gripping, deeply moving.' Marina Lewycka, author of Two Caravans; 'You must read this book. It will help you get into the nooks and crannies of our sweatshops and supermarkets. It will help you understand the suffering of a whole army of people who are not counted and not cared for. Read it, for the sake of your country.' Benjamin Zephaniah; 'This is not just a deeply moving book, it is a call to arms.' Institute of Race Relations; 'A remarkable piece of investigative journalism.' --Observer

L'autore:

Hsiao-Hung Pai is a freelance journalist, whose report on the Morecambe Bay tragedy for the Guardian was made into the film Ghosts. Her book on undocumented Chinese immigrants in Britain, Chinese Whispers, was shortlisted for the Orwell Book Prize in 2009. She lives in London.

Gregor Benton is Professor Emeritus of Chinese History at Cardiff. He has published twelve prior books on Marxism, political humor, the history of the Chinese Communist Party, Red guerillas in the 1930s, the Sino-Japanese War, dissent in China, Chinese Trotskyism, Hong Kong, the theory of moral economy, and overseas Chinese. 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.

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• Editore: Verso Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1844678865
• ISBN 13: 9781844678860
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 302