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china
chinas economic success and crises
chinas manufacturing boom
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eighty eight million rural people
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farm for subsistence
labor of migrant workers
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lost rights to village land
moved away from manufacturing
once supported and now landless
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runaway urbanization
rural fiscal crisis
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trajectories of rural workers
travel seasonally between villages
urban expansion and construction
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- ISBN 9780520305441
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jan 2020
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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For nearly four decades, China’s 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 China’s economic success, and the periodic crises—a rural fiscal crisis, a runaway urbanization—that it first created and now must resolve.
Julia Chuang is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston College.
