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Agree with the sentiment -- I wrote this about the migrant workers earlier and there's a large overlap: https://www.chineseconsumers.news/p/china-migrant-workers

Btw is the image AI-generated? If so it'd be great to caption that.

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Thanks for sharing! I'm listening to your article as I type.

The image is not AI generated, but I'll add a caption to clear that up. This was one of the first pages that went live.

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Wish this was written sooner…

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Ah Chengde, I passed through there literally this morning, on the way back from the Northeast. I wrote my dissertation on the much less interesting region of Canghzhou. I wasn't based at Nankai, but that's where I hung out. Good times indeed!

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when u guys talk about rural china, one guy comes up my mind. mao ze dong. he is the first chinese ruler after 1949 in china.

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Great post. What part of rural Hebei?

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Thank you! At that time I was living outside of Chengde. Halcyon days!

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it is really a great challenge to know anywhere of china in a deep manner.

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