Urban Migrants
...or working in the homes of China’s growing middle class. In the Pearl River and Yangtze delta regions tens of millions of young migrants labor on the world’s factory floors,...
...or working in the homes of China’s growing middle class. In the Pearl River and Yangtze delta regions tens of millions of young migrants labor on the world’s factory floors,...
...on, with family migration increasing in scale, most public schools continued to keep migrant children out of their facilities. Gradually, the “hut schools” grew in size and in number, then...
...tucked away in a pocket within the city and the structures of economics had forced the poorest into the lowest lying areas of the district. Migrants sat and watched as...
Having been away for some years, I tried to settle down again in Beijing. I took with me my Malaysian-born wife, who speaks Chinese with a different accent, and tried...
...A spiritual revival and transformation has already been taking place inside this vast country. Christianity is a major cultural development in China today. The newest estimate of the number of...
...navigated the maze of an otherwise indifferent and often hostile society, whether this involved finding a mate, getting a job, gaining entrance into the right school or making a significant...
...turn into a commute through sprawling suburbs. Just a few years ago, traveling a few miles past the Hong Kong border felt like being deposited right in the heart of...
...While the family looked on, some of the villagers, knowing they had HIV, badly beat up the husband with sticks and hammers, breaking his right forearm and left lower leg,...
Right now in China there are over one billion people that make up the country’s numerous family units. Family is the primary building block for social structures and for human...
...has been labeled a “superstition.” That may be changing as the number of practitioners increases exponentially across China. Actually, we could simply end the discussion right here, for even the...
...away from their families can sometimes mean living across the country and, at other times, it can mean being in the same town as their loved ones. They live with...
...only on corresponding odd and even days of the month. The number of cars can be smaller, yet the number of people on the road remains huge: several million ride...