num_pages: 256
description: For nearly four decades Chinas manufacturing boom has been powered by the labor of 287 million rural migrant workers who travel seasonally between villages where they farm for subsistence and cities where they work. Yet recently local governments have moved away from manufacturing and toward urban expansion and construction as a development strategy. As a result at least 88 million rural people to date have lost rights to village land. In Beneath the China Boom Julia Chuang follows the trajectories of rural workers who were once supported by a village welfare state and are now landless. This book provides a view of the undertow of Chinas economic success and the periodic crisesa rural fiscal crisis a runaway urbanizationthat it first created and now must resolve.
language: English
title: Beneath the China Boom: Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land Market
publisher: University of California Press