Faces of modern China

This week, The Guardian is running a series of articles and videos giving a ‘portrait’ of modern China.  This coincides with the newspaper’s new trial to offer selected Guardian articles in Chinese.
On day one, we see a video of the experiences of one migrant worker forced to return from Shenzhen to her parents’ farm [...]

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Ghosts – a film about the Morecambe Bay cocklepickers

I watched the harrowing film ‘Ghosts‘ last night. I found it an extremely emotive reminder of why we work on issues of labour standards. Ghosts dramatises the stories of the 23 Chinese illegal migrants to Britain who drowned in Morecambe Bay in February 2004.
The opening scenes of the last group of migrants standing [...]

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