In Cities and Villages, Children Are Getting Left Behind
The deaths—by suicide, violent attack, or apparent accident—of children in rural areas have...
by Sophie Beach | Aug 12, 2015
The deaths—by suicide, violent attack, or apparent accident—of children in rural areas have...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 11, 2014
As a new school year begins, China’s education gap remains sizable despite recent reform...
by Sophie Beach | Sep 4, 2014
In the New York Times, Helen Gao writes about the inequalities in China’s education system,...
by Anne Henochowicz | Aug 8, 2014
As the school year begins in China, the children of migrant workers face a harsh reality: without...
by Samuel Wade | Jun 19, 2014
Following a pair of recent articles on China’s cautious accommodation of independent...
by Sophie Beach | Dec 3, 2013
PRI’s The World reports on the growth of Mandarin as a common language in China, as...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 12, 2013
According to a newly released government report [zh], China’s “floating...
by Sophie Beach | Sep 11, 2013
The explosion at a school in Guilin has now been linked to a migrant worker who was in a dispute...
by 不忘初心 | Jul 13, 2012
Since Deng Xiaoping began the policy of economic reform and opening-up, Chinese migrant workers have become the biggest labour force in whole world. Zhao Shilin, now the owner of a flower shop on the Street of Eternal Happiness...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 12, 2011
Young migrant workers struggle to adapt to life in China’s cities according to a new survey, which reports that only 6% are either “relatively” or “very well” adapted. Common problems among...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 2, 2011
An ongoing series at The Economist’s More Intelligent Life site searches for a new global capital, with a particular focus on London, New York, Washington DC, Beijing, Delhi and Singapore. As noted in ‘Beijing:...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 30, 2011
The New York Times notes the razing of some 30 schools for migrant workers’ children in Beijing over the summer, affecting over 30,000 students. The demolitions, justified by the government on health and safety grounds,...
by Sophie Beach | Aug 24, 2011
China Media Project has translates an online chat conducted with Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Professor Yu Jianrong about the recent closures of schools for the children of migrant workers: Over the past six months, more...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 17, 2011
Caixin presents a photo gallery showing the site of a school for migrant workers in Beijing, which was suddenly demolished on Monday: Parents of migrant students were dismayed to find that over ten of the school’s...
by Sophie Beach | Sep 9, 2010
A school for migrant children, by Philip McMaster
by Sophie Beach | Jul 7, 2010
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...
by Sophie Beach | Jun 30, 2010
Beijing Kids Magazine has a short profile of Dandelion School for the children of migrant workers in Beijing: Gongyi Xiqiao is a frontier outpost on Beijing’s southern fringe, a cluster of highrise apartment blocks grouped...
by Jing Luo | Apr 2, 2007
From CNN News: The number of people in China who can’t read has shot up to 116 million, wiping out years of hard-won gains against illiteracy as rural poor leave the farm and school for work in the city, state media said Monday. Migrant workers in China’s urban centers do not have access to public […]