If you are interested in the migrant story, i recommend checking out the book i mentioned. It's a bit strangely-paced (perhaps because it is written by a journalist), but it gives a good insight into the basics. I hope to be able to learn and write more about this stuff over the next months.
that dinner sounds goood. especially the home-cooked part.
these glimpses of life in china are totally fascinating. i just read an article about a chinese national who got his phd at mit in some engineering field (materials, i think) and wants to stay in the us - he has a baby now, who's an american citizen - but he didn't get any offers and a chinese university lured him back home with what i'm guessing is a good salary, research money, and a down payment on a house. so he's going back to china to work. which sucks for the us, because i'm sure he's a smart, talented guy, but is good for china. i think that's a result of american attitudes towards foreigners getting educated and working here, more than it says anything in particular about china. i mean, i'm not at all surprised that folks leave china in favor of places with greater freedom of speech.
i wouldn't have guessed there was such a thing as white collar migrant workers. interesting!
I would definitely recommend giving the book i mentioned a read, if you are interested in the Chinese migrant story. I have finished it now, and a bit later in the book some of the blue collar migrants turn white. In China there is this unusual situation where it is very difficult to give up your hometown residence, so what we in the west would think of as young people moving to the city to get a job, in China they are still seen (and treated) as migrant workers.
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these glimpses of life in china are totally fascinating. i just read an article about a chinese national who got his phd at mit in some engineering field (materials, i think) and wants to stay in the us - he has a baby now, who's an american citizen - but he didn't get any offers and a chinese university lured him back home with what i'm guessing is a good salary, research money, and a down payment on a house. so he's going back to china to work. which sucks for the us, because i'm sure he's a smart, talented guy, but is good for china. i think that's a result of american attitudes towards foreigners getting educated and working here, more than it says anything in particular about china. i mean, i'm not at all surprised that folks leave china in favor of places with greater freedom of speech.
i wouldn't have guessed there was such a thing as white collar migrant workers. interesting!
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