How Migrant Labor Is Changing Rural China.(Book Review) From: China Review International | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: Guang, Lei | COPYRIGHT 2004 University of Hawaii Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Rachel Murphy. How Migrant Labor is Changing Rural China. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. XX, 286 pp. Hardcover $70.00, ISBN 0-521-80901-0. Paperback $25.00, ISBN 0-521-00530-2.

Hiroshi Sato. The Growth of Market Relations in Post-reform Rural China: A Micro-analysis of Peasants, Migrants and Peasant Entrepreneurs. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. XV, 240 pp. Hardcover $100.00, ISBN 0-7007-1726-9.

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