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Eating Bitterness: Stories from the Front Lines of China''s Great Urban Migration

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By (author): Michelle 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 vendor, an itinerant knife sharpener, a free-spirited recycler, and a cash-strapped mother - offering an inside look at the pain, self-sacrifice, and uncertainty underlying China's dramatic national transformation. At the heart of the book lies each person's ability to eat bitterness - a term that roughly means to endure hardships, overcome difficulties, and forge ahead. These stories illustrate why China continues to advance, even as the rest of the world remains embroiled in financial turmoil. At the same time, Eating Bitterness demonstrates how dealing with the issues facing this class of people constitutes China's most pressing domestic challenge. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 318g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Jul 2013
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780520280366

About Michelle Loyalka

Michelle Dammon Loyalka has lived in China for 13 years during which time she has written a language-learning textbook launched a business consulting company co-hosted a radio talk show in Mandarin and headed the educational products division of a Chinese software company. A freelance journalist and editor Loyalka holds a master's degree from the Missouri School of Journalism and currently lives in Beijing.

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