The stories collected here illuminate two recent phenomena in China. The first migration—the "up to the mountains, down to the villages" movement of the late 1960s to 1970s, where approximately twelve to fourteen million educated urban youth left the cities to work on farms, and the large voluntary migration since the 1990s of tens of millions of peasants into the cities.
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The stories collected here illuminate two recent phenomena in China. The first migration—the “up to the mountains, down to the villages” movement of the late 1960s to 1970s—where approximately twelve to fourteen million educated urban youth left the cities to work on farms, and the large voluntary migration since the 1990s of tens of millions of peasants into the cities.
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ISBN
9781933947235
Publisert
2011-01-31
Utgiver
Vendor
Cornell University East Asia Program
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
165 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Om bidragsyterne

Karen Gernant is professor emeritus of Chinese history at Southern Oregon University.
Chen Zeping is professor in Chinese linguistics at Fujian Normal University.