Eating Bitterness: Stories from the Front Lines of China's Great Urban Migration - Softcover

Loyalka, Michelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520280369 ISBN 13: 9780520280366

Verlag: University of California Press, 2013

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"What Loyalka finds is fascinating... Details ... make the book read like an ethnography, with a lot of first-hand discovery, and give it lasting power as a historical record of the biggest, fastest urbanization in human history." -- April Rabkin San Francisco Chronicle "A vivid portrait of the migrant experience in the burgeoning western Chinese city of Xi'an... An insightful look at the hard lives of real people caught in a cultural transition." Kirkus Reviews "A thorough and insightful examination of the gritty, arduous side of the Chinese economic miracle." Publishers Weekly "One of the first books to examine the complexities of rural-to-urban migration through the life stories of individuals." -- Maura Elizabeth Cunningham Pacific Standard "Eating Bitterness sheds light on another dimension of the vast spectrum of Chinese society and is a valuable addition to the nonfiction literature on China." -- Hilton Yip Asian Review Of Books "The book is a welcome complement to the many monographs and economic studies that have charted China's economic progress... Highly recommended." -- F. Ng Choice

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Every year over 200 million peasants flock to China's urban centers, providing a profusion of cheap labor that helps fuel the country's staggering economic growth. Award-winning journalist Michelle Dammon Loyalka follows the trials and triumphs of eight such migrants - including a vegetable vendor, an itinerant knife sharpener, a free-spirited recycler, and a cash-strapped mother - offering an inside look at the pain, self-sacrifice, and uncertainty underlying China's dramatic national transformation. At the heart of the book lies each person's ability to "eat bitterness" - a term that roughly means to endure hardships, overcome difficulties, and forge ahead. These stories illustrate why China continues to advance, even as the rest of the world remains embroiled in financial turmoil. At the same time, Eating Bitterness demonstrates how dealing with the issues facing this class of people constitutes China's most pressing domestic challenge.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0520280369
• ISBN 13: 9780520280366
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 276