Floating Population
Floating Population
$35.50
STIJNS, Nadine. Floating Population
Fw: Books. 2013
Book ID: 96280
In the early 1980s, upon the opening up of Chinas economy under Deng Xiaoping, farmers left their hometowns seeking work in Chinas developing cities as a response to the resulting agricultural reforms. These people from Chinas vast rural areas are referred to as the floating population. By visually assembling photographs, video stills and photographed objects like textiles, rubber shoes, construction materials, a sock, piles of postcards and posters and more Nadine Stijns investigates this stream of migrant labourers. With texts by sinologist, journalist and writer Catherine Vuylsteke.
40 pp. Chinese/English. Pap.
