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Last Train Home
Content:Documentary Film
Available From:Zeitgeist Films, Ltd.
Eyesteel Film
Review Available:Review
Media Type:DVD
Release Date:2009
Audience:Higher Education
High School
Running Time:87 minutes
Physical Description:(Null)
Language:Mandarin with English subtitles
Author:Director: Lixin Fan
Resource Library Number:EACDVD 122
Subject:Anthropology and Sociology
Economics and Business
Subheading:Industry
Rural Conditions
Urban Conditions
Region:East Asia
Country:China



Abstract:

Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos, as all at once, a tidal wave of humanity attempts to return home by train. It is the Chinese New Year. The wave is made up of millions of migrant factory workers. The homes they seek are the rural villages and families they left behind to seek work in the booming coastal cities. It is an epic spectacle that tells us much about China, a country discarding traditional ways as it hurtles towards modernity and global economic dominance.




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