Yego’s Chronicles

Tag: Migration

  • Shenzhen Before Shenzhen (5/5)

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    The City Without People From the Great Clearance to Artificial Intelligence: An Alternative Future for Shenzhen’s Population and Economy I. The First Great Clearance Beginning in 1661, the eighteenth year of the Shunzhi reign, the Qing government implemented a policy of coastal evacuation to sever connections between the inhabitants of southeastern China and the maritime…

  • Shenzhen Before Shenzhen (4/5)

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    You Come to Shenzhen. Does That Make You a Shenzhener? From Liang Degong to Baishizhou: Migration, Land, and Urban Belonging I. A Place Where She Had Lived for Twenty-Two Years On July 4, 2019, a forty-eight-year-old woman surnamed Li stood in front of the shop she operated in Baishizhou, Shenzhen, and had her photograph taken.…