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Zusatztext “Hsiao-Hung Pai’s intrepid journalism is one of the most revealing guides to contemporary China.”—Pankaj Mishra! author of From the Ruins of Empire “The product of thorough reporting among China’s most marginalised citizens shows what can be discovered despite official obstruction.”— New Statesmen “Scattered Sand captures the sadness! resilience and anger of China’s millions of internal and international migrants. This illuminating book effortlessly interweaves individual voices! rarely heard by English-speaking audiences! with the history! politics and economics that shape migrants’ stories and their choices.”—Bridget Anderson! author of Doing the Dirty Work: The Global Politics of Domestic Labour “Hsiao-Hung Pai brings her knowledge of China’s history to this detailed examination of the plight of the millions of peasants searching for work in China’s booming cities and! failing that! in other countries ... A grim but keen view of the dark underside of China’s prosperity.”— Kirkus Reviews “The Chinese ‘miracle’ gets a reality check in this engrossing exposé ... A moving contribution to the growing literature on the new China! the book will prove relevant for anyone interested in ongoing debates around migrant labor in a globalized economy.”— Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Hsiao-Hung Pai is a freelance journalist, whose report on the Morecambe Bay tragedy for the Guardian was made into the film Ghosts . Her book on undocumented Chinese immigrants in Britain, Chinese Whispers , was shortlisted for the Orwell Book Prize in 2009. She lives in London. Gregor Benton is emeritus professor of Chinese history at Cardiff University. He has published many books on China and other subjects. His principal research areas are modern Chinese history, dissent under communism, and Chinese diaspora. His Mountain Fires: The Red Army's Three-Year War in South China, 1934-1938 (1992) won several awards, including the Association of Asian Studies' prize for the Best Book on Modern China. His translation of Mei Zhi's Hu Feng's Prison Years won the English Pen Award. Klappentext Firsthand report on the largest migration in human history Zusammenfassung Firsthand report on the largest migration in human history ...
