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I'm currently reading Richard Burger's book Behind the Red Door: Sex in China. It is a very interesting look at a subject that is rarely discussed with expats (or anyone else).
Tag Archives: Migrant worker
China’s well educated garbage men – Sorting through the waste of superfluous degrees
When you hear the words “migrant worker,” what kind of person comes to mind? Are they young or middle age? Are they poor? Are they educated? While “migrant worker” seems at first to describe a fairly uniform group of lowly … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Education, Life in China
Tagged Academic degree, China, Foxconn, Garbage, Guangdong, Guangxi, Migrant worker, People's Daily
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Poor Economics and China’s 128 million people living in poverty
While China has raised hundreds of millions of people out of desperate poverty in the last 60 years, there are still 128 million people living on less that $1 per day (World Bank defines poverty as less than $1.25/day). This … Continue reading
Posted in book review, Development, Education
Tagged Abhijit Banerjee, China, Esther Duflo, Government, Migrant worker, One-child policy, Poor Economics, World Bank
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Top China stories of the week 01/01-01/08
China’s tomb raiders laying waste to thousands of years of history, by Tania Branigan. Soaring prices offered by collectors and lax monitoring of China’s thousands of historical sites have led to grave robbing on a massive scale. One researcher estimates … Continue reading
Seeing Red in China 