Rural Labor Flows in China

"The Ford Foundation has sponsored a number of research projects to investigate the characteristics of the migrant workers and the conditions they face. This edited book contains a dozen papers from these projects that were presented at a conference in Beijing in 1996.... The quality of their chapters is almost uniformly high." —Jonathan Unger, The Australian National University, The China Journal, no. 45 (January 2001): 171–172.

"Although books and articles on internal migration in China have proliferated recently, this volume provides an exceptionally fine collection of essays that contain information and data useful for historical and comparative analyses in future case studies. Rural Labor Flows in China is strongly recommended for graduate students, researchers, and policy makers interested in labor issues in China." —Young-Jin Choi, PhD Candidate at the University of Hawai'i, China Review International 8, no. 2 (Fall 2001): 578-580

“The most significant aspect of this book is that it offers intensive empirical data collected from both origin and destination places of migrants at macro and micro contexts […] Another strength is that this volume affords some penetrating views that most former research on Chinese internal migration has ignored.” —Feng Zhang, University of British Columbia, Pacific Affairs 74, no. 3 (Autumn 2001): 420-422