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What Loyalka finds is fascinating... Details ... make the book read like an ethnography, with a lot of first-hand discovery, and give it lasting power as a historical record of the biggest, fastest urbanization in human history. -- April Rabkin San Francisco Chronicle 20120408 A vivid portrait of the migrant experience in the burgeoning western Chinese city of Xi'an... An insightful look at the hard lives of real people caught in a cultural transition. Kirkus Reviews 20120201 A thorough and insightful examination of the gritty, arduous side of the Chinese economic miracle. Publishers Weekly 20120130 One of the first books to examine the complexities of rural-to-urban migration through the life stories of individuals. -- Maura Elizabeth Cunningham Pacific Standard 20120420 Eating Bitterness sheds light on another dimension of the vast spectrum of Chinese society and is a valuable addition to the nonfiction literature on China. -- Hilton Yip Asian Review Of Books 20120429 Extremely readable, with each portrait of a migrant's life qualifying as a literary short story. -- Kimiko Suda China Perspectives 20130615 The book is a welcome complement to the many monographs and economic studies that have charted China's economic progress... Highly recommended. -- F. Ng Choice 20121001

A vivid portrait of the migrant experience in the burgeoning western Chinese city of Xi'an... An insightful look at the hard lives of real people caught in a cultural transition. --Kirkus Reviews

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Michelle Dammon Loyalka has lived in China for 13 years, during which time she has written a language-learning textbook, launched a business consulting company, co-hosted a radio talk show in Mandarin, and headed the educational products division of a Chinese software company. A freelance journalist and editor, Loyalka holds a master's degree from the Missouri School of Journalism and currently lives in Beijing.

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