On May 18, a social media post (archived here) announced the impending closure and demolition of a well-known museum dedicated to documenting the lives and improving the welfare of China’s migrant workers. The Museum of Working...
The deaths—by suicide, violent attack, or apparent accident—of children in rural areas have...
As a new school year begins, China’s education gap remains sizable despite recent reform...
In the New York Times, Helen Gao writes about the inequalities in China’s education system,...
As the school year begins in China, the children of migrant workers face a harsh reality: without...
Following a pair of recent articles on China’s cautious accommodation of independent...
PRI’s The World reports on the growth of Mandarin as a common language in China, as...
According to a newly released government report [zh], China’s “floating...
The explosion at a school in Guilin has now been linked to a migrant worker who was in a dispute...
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...
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...
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:...
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,...
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...
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...
A school for migrant children, by Philip McMaster
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...
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...
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