Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Welcome, NEH Fellows!
This is a place where everyone can post information that would be of use to people in our group studying China and India and connections between the two countries. Web sites, articles, ideas...whatever you think the group could employ to further study these countries. This blog will be up indefinitely, so please load it with information and visit frequently when you need to refresh your memory or find new ideas to apply to your classroom.
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When I watched The Last Train Home weeks ago, I was so amazed by the reality that didn't exist when I was in China 20 years ago. The migration has presented both unprecedented opportunities for the peasants liberated by the economic forces and created unfortunate consequences for the young kids left behind.
ReplyDeleteIf you are interested in learning more about the young migrants like the girl in the documentary, you might want to read Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China, by Leslie T. Chang. She followed some girls working the the factories in the southern city of Shenzhen over many years and provided a fuller description of the lives they had. Another one is Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler, who followed some college students who joined the army of the migrants to the south.