Eating bitterness [electronic resource] : stories from the front lines of China's great urban migration / Michelle Dammon Loyalka.
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...
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Table of Contents:
- The veggie vendors
- The impenetrable knife sharpener
- The teenage beauty queens
- The ever-floating floater
- The landless landlords
- The nowhere nanny
- The opportunity spotter
- The big boss.