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Caste Aside: The Future for China's Peasants

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People Want to Go to the City, but Nobody Wants to Be in the Side

I think this notion that everybody wants to be in the city, is a modernist notion. It's based on an overly romanticized idea of what the countryside is. But there are groups of people who want to have life in the countryside. And maybe also to come back to the idea of tong ping, which i understand more as a movement of some people who are not really interested in working so hard and getting these material gains.

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