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different but converging points of view on the effects of these “critical” times for China. In the first, Michael Anti, renowned Chinese journalist, accompanies his analysis with the narration of a case in order to describe the present situation of China’s millions of jobless migrant workers. Most of them, like Zhang, a boy from a village in Sichuan, are newcomers in the job markets and have left their provinces for a far away factory, in this case in Guangdong. Then the economic downturn struck hard, shutting down many workplaces, etc. What can he do next? Zhang asks of himself. With this question in mind, the reading of the second article leads to a deeper level of reflection. As the author, Sun Liping, from Tsing Hua University, writes in his blog, the turmoil that threatens more often than not, here and there, the stability of Chinese society, is not at the root of its problems. The root is “social decay” and he explains why it is more threatening.
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