Exodus: Northeast youth head for the city -- Earthquakes in bohemia: life and death in Sichuan -- Dust and heat: black mines in the Yellow River region -- The dark kilns: brickmaking in the North -- 'Bad elements': the uprooted and permanently impoverished in Shandong -- The factory of the world: recession in Guangdong -- In the shadows of olympians: unorganized workers in Beijing -- Go west! The migration industry in rural Fujian -- Trouble on the new frontier: ethnic tensions in Xinjiang.
