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She witnessed the outcome of the 2009 riots in the Muslim province of Xinjiang saw towns in rubble more than a year after the colossal earthquake in Sichuan and was reunited with long-lost relatives, estranged since her mother’s family fled for Taiwan during the Civil War. For two years, the award-winning journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai traveled across China visiting labourers on Olympic construction sites, in the coal mines and brick kilns of the Yellow River region, and at the factories of the Pearl River Delta. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorganized workforce-’scattered sand’, in Chinese parlance-and the most marginalized and impoverished group of workers in the country. Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history.
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