About the book:
China is changing. Today's migrants from the countryside are a world apart from their fathers and grandfathers who made the same journeys to the metropolises in search of work twenty and thirty years before them. Better educated and connected by technology, they now expect more than a wage from the society they can currently only skirt the fringes of. Having no desire to return home to do the farming, they want to stay, be accepted, and become the same as everybody else. In this refreshingly open and enlightening book by lauded author, Huang Chuanhui, we hear the stories and hopes for the future from the people who live in the basements of cities across China.


Author's Foreword
CHAPTER 1 Three Generations of Migrant Workers
CHAPTER 2 From Tarpaulin Bags to Suitcases
CHAPTER 3 Youth on Scaffolds
CHAPTER 4 Picun Village Culture
CHAPTER 5 "Luo Lian Runs Away" and "Foxconn Suicides"
CHAPTER 6 Bitter Love, Bitter Marriage
CHAPTER 7 Help Them Bloom
CHAPTER 8 May Their Future Not Just Be a Dream
Postscript