Rural Origins, City Lives

"Paints a compelling, sensitive and nuanced picture of who China’s migrant workers are. . . . An enjoyable and rewarding read."

~China Quarterly

"Succeeds in showing that the category ‘peasant worker’ is much more heterogeneous than official and popular discourses suggest."

~Anthropology of Work Review

"Rural Origins, City Lives does what good ethnography should do: it brings us into the grounded, life worlds of others in a way that forces us to question our broader assumptions and the categories that those assumptions are based on. That alone makes it a worthwhile and rewarding book."

~Tim Oakes, China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies