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China's Great Migration - How the Poor Built a Prosperous Nation (Hardcover)
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China's Great Migration - How the Poor Built a Prosperous Nation (Hardcover)
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China's rise over the past several decades has lifted more than
half of its population out of poverty and reshaped the global
economy. What has caused this dramatic transformation? In China's
Great Migration: How the Poor Built a Prosperous Nation, author
Bradley Gardner looks at one of the most important but least
discussed forces pushing China's economic development: the
migration of more than 260 million people from their birthplaces to
China's most economically vibrant cities. By combining an analysis
of China's political economy with current scholarship on the role
of migration in economic development, China's Great Migration shows
how the largest economic migration in the history of the world has
led to a bottom-up transformation of China. Gardner draws from his
experience as a researcher and journalist working in China to
investigate why people chose to migrate and the social and
political consequences of their decisions. In the aftermath of
China's Cultural Revolution, the collapse of totalitarian
government control allowed millions of people to skirt migration
restrictions and move to China's growing cities, where they offered
a massive pool of labor that propelled industrial development,
foreign investment, and urbanization. Struggling to respond to the
demands of these migrants, the Chinese government loosened its grip
on the economy, strengthening property rights and allowing migrants
to employ themselves and each other, spurring the Chinese economic
miracle. More than simply a narrative of economic progress, China's
Great Migration tells the human story of China's transformation,
featuring interviews with the men and women whose way of life has
been remade. In its pages, readers will learn about the rebirth of
a country and millions of lives changed, hear what migration can
tell us about the future of China, and discover what China's
development can teach the rest of the world about the role of
market liberalization and economic migration in fighting poverty
and creating prosperity.
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