Title: Zai hai bian Jia zi gong = Scaffold workers /
Authors: Hu, Jie, 1958-; Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Publisher: Xianggang Zhong wen da xue Zhongguo yan jiu fu wu zhong xin,
Year: 2003
Subjects: China Social conditions; Shandong Sheng (China) Social conditions.
Abstract: By the sea: Story about the living situation of a farmer's family by the sea, whose forefathers migrated to Northeast of China, then get back to Shandong resulting from extreme food shortage in Northeast of China. However, facing the land their forefathers have lived in, they have no land of their own and no registered permanent residence, and they have no choice but to face the sea. Scraffold workers: The ordinary rural youth, who risk their lives at any second by working at the scaffolding. Do they find what they want in the city and so they hear the songs from home in their dream.