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Beyond the trillions of dollars that forced urbanization is going to cost, there's a human cost to tearing people from their homes and placing them where the government wants them to go.
“I have anxiety attacks because we have no income, no job, nothing,” said Feng Aiju, 40, a former farmer who moved to Huaming in 2008 against her will. . “We never had a chance to speak; we were never asked anything. I want to go home.”
“Chinese culture has traditionally been rural-based,” says Feng Jicai, a well-known author and scholar. “Once the villages are gone, the culture is gone.”
"Over the past five years, at least 39 farmers have resorted to this drastic form of protest [suicide]. The figures, pieced together from Chinese news reports and human rights organizations, are a stark reminder of how China’s new wave of urbanization is at times a violent struggle between a powerful state and stubborn farmers."
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