What's A Peasant To Do? Village Becoming Town In Southern China

Since China entered the post-Mao "Reform Era" in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Chinese economy has taken off as few economies ever have. Labor migration, rural enterprises, rising production, and globalization have all combined to end the isolation of the Chinese countryside. Yet although China''s unsurpassed economic boom has produced reams of impressive statistics, has this economic growth...