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Fan Lixin’s Last Train Home: why film unhappy things?

Canadian citizen Fan Lixin (范立欣) has made a documentary that spans the years 2007 to 2009, focusing on an old couple’s journey back to Guang’an city, Huilong village (回龙村) in Sichuan from the factories of Guangzhou. The documentary, made with over one million dollars in funding, will have wide release in foreign countries…

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Rich-poor gap: Poor pays?

Ralph Jennings posts a letter he received when he was working as an agony uncle for a Chinese newspaper: “I’m a freshman at a university in Nanjing. Recently, some of my roommates’ parents went to see them with a lot of new clothes and food.”

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Migrant workers and unemployment

Dan Chung’s video featuring Guardian journalist Tania Branigan about whether peasant workers will return to cities to work after the Spring Festival break.

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Working China

A video about people working in China.

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Long Hair Drama, by Zhang Lijia

An except from Zhang Lijia’s book ‘Socialism is Great!: A Worker’s Memoir of the New China’.

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Workers book launch this Friday

British artist Helen Couchman will be launching her new book–Workers 工人–at the Beijing Bookworm on Thursday night at 7:30 pm.

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Johnnie Worker and his red labial

A pirate Johnnie Walker bottle of whiskey.

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