Scattered sand
Subtitle: the story of China's rural migrants
By: Hsiao-Hung Pai ; preface by Gregor Benton
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781781680902
Subjects: Social conditions; Internal migrants; Internal Migration; Migrant labor
Notes: Includes a preface by the author.

First published: 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-302).
Table of contents: title: Exodus: Northeast youth head for the city; title: Earthquakes in bohemia: life and death in Sichuan; title: Dust and heat: black mines in the Yellow River region; title: The dark kilns: brickmaking in the North; title: 'Bad elements': the uprooted and permanently impoverished in Shandon; title: The factory of the world: recession in Guangzhou; title: In the shadows of olympians: unorganized workers in Beijing; title: Go west! The migration industry in rural Fujian; title: Trouble on the new frontier: ethnic tensions in Xinjiang.