“People gone; buildings empty: that is the actual fact of each day life within the countryside,” lamented the creator Liang Hong in her bestselling account China in One Village. It was a grim portrait of her house city – its vitality ebbing because the forces of recent life drained it of younger individuals, polluted its water, exploited its sources and even turned the native faculty right into a pigsty. Its quarter of one million gross sales mirrored not simply her distinctive writing, however the familiarity of the story. As city China prospered with the Communist social gathering’s flip to the market, 350 million villagers migrated to the cities, abandoning more and more desolate settlements.
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