On Shadows and Citizens: Beijing's Rural Migrant Construction Workers

by Charlie Shifflett

Overview

"On Shadows and Citizens" recounts the seven weeks the author spent in Beijing observing and talking with migrant construction workers from rural Sichuan. The four-part narrative depicts their life and work on the construction site and includes interviews, a trip to their home village and a discussion of the role that migrant workers play today in Chinese society. The interviews and events took place between June and August 2005.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012537300
Publisher:	Charlie Shifflett
Publication date:	03/27/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Charlie Shifflett spent six years in China, including four at the national weekly newspaper 21st Century, where he worked as a section editor and writer. The 30-year-old has also written for China Daily, taught English composition courses at People's University in Beijing and earned a master's degree from the University of Iowa. He currently resides in Washington D.C.