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Podcast: The Cosmopolitan
Episode: Caste Aside: The Future for China's Peasants
Description: Podcast: The Little Red Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Caste Aside: The Future for China's PeasantsPub date: 2022-02-02Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationBy any metric, China's rural residents face massive disadvantages compared to their urban counterparts. More than half of rural teenagers are cognitively delayed, and longstanding policies restrict their mobility and access to vital services. China's peasants were one of Chairman Mao's favoured classes and the backbone of his Revolution, but what place is there for the half-a-billion rural...