【08.11.6美 外交政策聚焦】 书评：一座浮动的农民之城
http://www.singtaonet.com/ed_china/200811/t20081105_895089.html历史上最重大的一次人口迁移如今正在进行-农民纷纷涌入城市，世界各地城市人口不断膨胀。不过，正是中国的重大人口迁移才有可能改变地缘政治。中国是世界上人口最多的国家，人口迁移的规模大得惊人。中国有182个城市已具备国际大都会的规模，其中有89个城市的人口超过百万。相比之下，美国的人口在百万以上的城市只有37个。中国的这种人口迁移不仅将影响能源的使用、气候和农业生产，随着中国一些城市成为金融、政治和艺术中心，它还必然将促使全球政治力量由西方向东方转移。
荷兰记者弗洛里斯-让·范吕恩协同几位摄影记者，遍访中国各地，采访了很多刚刚进城的农民、年轻的打工族以及被他们留在农村老家的家人。他们拍下了大量详实的照片，其中给人印象深刻的是两个小女孩——露露和聪聪，她们在湖南长沙的酒吧和迪厅里卖鲜花。这两个小女孩漂亮可爱。而她们实际上是“包身工”，为了给乡下的父母赚钱，包给了长沙的“一位大姐”。同小小年纪就被迫卖身或没白没黑为城里亲戚卖苦力的其他女孩相比，露露和聪聪似乎过得还不错。她们心满意足地吃着客人的残羹剩饭，她们觉得待遇不错。不过，她们依然是前途难料的童工。
范吕恩写了《一座浮动的衣民之城》－书。书中记述了很多农民工的亲身经历。同时，它也记裁了中国的农民工政策的逐渐转变。农民工已经成为中国经济发展不可或缺的一部分。譬如天津，110万民工对天津经济发展的贡献多达12 亿美元中国政府已开始着手解决农民工的居住和医广保健问题，而且还减少农业税。中国如何处理这种大规模人口迁淀问题很可能将决定着其未来在世界秩序中的命运。如果北京处理得当，今日的农民和农民工将成为朋口的全球领导者。（作者 约翰·费弗）
A Floating City of Peasants: The Great Migration in Contemporary China by
Floris-Jan Van Luyn, Jeannette K Ringold (Translator)
he unprecedented movement of 120 million peasants from rural China to its cities, told from the migrants' point of view.
""Floris-Janvan Luyn brings China to life by listening to the people, whose voiceswould otherwise have gone unheard. Here are stories, not of highpolitics, but of life as it is led by most Chinese. This is reportageat its best.""--Ian Buruma, author of "Bad Elements: Chinese RebelsFrom Los Angeles To Beijing"
The largest human migration inhistory is taking place in China today--incredibly, off the radar ofthe world's major media. Since the 1990s, at least 120 million Chinesepeasants have left the countryside for big cities to work in factories,on construction sites, in catering and prostitution--typically withouteven the most basic rights or protections.
In "A Floating City ofPeasants," Floris-Jan van Luyn--who spent six years reporting fromChina for a daily newspaper--relates the remarkable tales of migrantworkers who have helped fuel the explosive growth of the People'sRepublic. In a series of a dozen remarkably intimate portraitsilluminated by wide-ranging reporting, we meet Xiao Li, a prostitute,who sends her little girl to the best school in Chongqing; Chunming whostole money from his parents to pay for the long trip to Beijing andfound work on a garbage dump; Lusong, who campaigned for a villageschool and against corrupt government employees and, as a result, wastortured almost to death; and others with equally gripping stories.Revealing the dark side of the Chinese economic miracle in words andstriking pictures, this book documents an historic turning point in thelife of themodern world. 没有农民兄弟的 苦难 哪有共和国的建立 哪有改革开放的辉煌！！！！ 相当辛苦和值得尊敬的人。
他们勤劳的手捧出了城市的正常运转和幸福生活。 可是城市人却对农民工种种责难
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