Zhu Junbing tells a depressing tale of a cheating boss. The reponse from the authorities fits with recent offical policy directives.
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As promised, here’s the second of the personal accounts of migrant working originally published in China Youth. Li Yibing is a young man caught between tiring and dangerous jobs as a migrant worker in Guangzhou and pressures from family expectations.
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This is a translation of one of four short interviews with migrant workers that were posted on the 新文化论坛, originally published as part of the cover story from this month’s China Youth magazine. I’ll do the other three too over the next few days. The individual stories as told to journalist Chen Min have the merit of being short so I thought I’d offer them here as first person accounts of life as a migrant worker. They’re voices that are often ignored in the wider discussions about internal migration and what it means for Chinese society - though that said China Youth is the magazine of the Communist Youth League so obviously there are people in the Party listening.
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