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China: Migrant Worker Song

Peijin Chen from Shanghaiist blogs about this year's Spring Festival show specialty: Migrant worker song performance. But is it really about the migrant workers? The story seems to be more about the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. ...full story at Global Voices

from Global Voices on Fri, Dec 14 2007

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