migrants

Chinese Dreamin’ on the Street of Eternal Happiness

In the final installment of his Street of Eternal Happiness series, Marketplace’s Rob Schmitz revisits two of its inhabitants, 95-year-old qipao tailor Chu Hongsheng and migrant florist Zhao Silin: I ask Zhao about...

Eating Bitterness: China’s Great Urban Migration

April Rabkin reviews Michelle Dammon Loyalka’s new book, ‘Eating Bitterness’, for the San Francisco Chronicle: Being a migrant in China is a bit like being an illegal immigrant in California. Essentially, when...

State Media Responds to Rights Report

Human Rights Watch recently released its 22nd annual World Report, whose 676 pages include a country-by-country overview of human rights developments around the world and a series of essays on themes including the Arab Spring...

China's Urbanization Paradox

A Monday Global Times piece debunks the urban dream for rural Chinese students, who used to view acceptance to an urban university as a “golden ticket” which allowed them to shift their rural hukou (residence permit)...

Beijing Manages its Population, Above Ground and Below

Beijing authorities have announced a variety of measures for managing the city’s expanding population, in accordance with the 12th Five-Year Plan. In addition to limiting the influx of migrants which has driven the...

Video: Zanta!

Zanta! is a documentary film by journalist Jocelyn Ford which follows the lives of widowed Tibetan street hawker Zanta and her seven-year-old son, whom she brought to Beijing so he could get an education. The film is in...

China Redirects Trillions Of Gallons Of Water To Arid North

From Telegraph: Surveying the rubble of their recently demolished village, the huddle of Chinese peasant-farmers is in an openly mutinous mood, their list of gripes and grumbles against the local government spilling out one...

China’s Rural Migrants Are New Front in AIDS Fight

Chinese officials are worried that migrant laborers may be the newest high-risk group for AIDS in China. From Reuters: “Other at-risk groups are rather small, but this one is huge,” said Sun Xinhua, head of an office...

Beijing Population Passes 17 Million – AP

Beijing’s Ministry of Public Security released figures yesterday showing the capital’s population is nearing 18 million. From AP via the International Herald Tribune: The population rise is straining the city’s natural resources and environment, with Beijing long having passed the food self-sufficiency mark of 14 million, the report said. It said the population included 12.04 […]

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