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The inconvenient generation : migrant youth coming of age on Shanghai's edge / Minhua Ling.
LIBRA HQ799.C62 S44 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ling, Minhua, 1979- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Youth--China--Shanghai--Social conditions.
- Youth.
- Children of internal migrants--China--Shanghai--Social conditions.
- Children of internal migrants.
- Rural-urban migration--Social aspects--China--Shanghai.
- Rural-urban migration.
- Rural-urban migration--Social aspects.
- Youth--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- China--Shanghai.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 270 pages: illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- Introduction : coming of age in an urban growth dilemma
- Living on the periurban edge
- The "reproduction without cultivation" problem
- Outsiders in public middle school
- "Bad students go to vocational schools!"
- To go home or not
- Buying belonging
- "No good prospects in Shanghai!"
- Conclusion : next-generation Shanghai
- Appendix 1: China's policy changes over migration management
- Appendix 2: Brief biographies of migrant youth mentioned in this book.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-262) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ling, Minhua, 1979- Inconvenient generation.
- ISBN:
- 9781503609976
- 1503609979
- 9781503610767
- 1503610764
- OCLC:
- 1084557814
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