A Floating City Of Peasants: The Great Migration in Contemporary China
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
A Floating City Of Peasants: The Great Migration in Contemporary China
By (Author) Floris-Jan van Luyn
The New Press
The New Press
9th May 2008
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
307.240951
Physical Properties
Hardback
240
Width 16mm, Height 23mm
458g
Description
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 have left the countryside for the big cities to work in factories, on construction sites, in catering and prostitution - typically without the most basic rights or protections. Here van Luyn relates the remarkable tales of migrant workers who have helped fuel the explosive growth of the People's Republic of China.
Reviews
"A great book and a fine piece of investigative journalism which gets behind Chinas economic boom and brings to life the people who make it possible. Anyone who wants to understand what is happening in China or to the world economy should read this book." —Jasper Becker, author of The Chinese and Dragon Rising
Author Bio
From 1995 to 2001, Floris-Jan van Luyn was the China correspondent for the Dutch daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad. He studied history and Chinese in Leiden, Taipei, and Beijing before becoming a journalist and a filmmaker. He lives in The Hague, Netherlands.
