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...migrants, of course, hope to move on. Before my wife and I bought a car here, we used to call a guy named Shi Guozheng, 27, from Anhui, who was a taxi driver of sorts. Shi had a battered old van, and made a living transporting migrant workers back and forth to their home towns. He was married, and often his wife, Lin, was in the car on our journeys into town. Over time my wife and she became friendly. One day last summer, they had tea together and Lin told Joyce she was pregnant, and that...
...think trouble - and change - comes the day Shi Guozheng doesn't have another place to move to, another job to go to. It's not the people living the Great Chinese Dream - with the new house and the car and the dog and maybe a second child on the way - that the government needs to worry about. It's the people who build that dream for others, and then move on, hoping to do it again somewhere else. They, too, are vested in the country's economic miracle. But should that miracle somehow turn sour, look...
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