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“Beyond Homeless: Finding Hope” is the Independent Institute's award-winning, 38-minute documentary on the very serious and growing problem of homelessness cities in America. The film contrasts the current tragic conditions of San Francisco’s unhoused with a successful community-wide solution called Haven for Hope of Bexar County, located in San Antonio, TX. The film is also the companion to the in-depth Independent Institute book, “Beyond Homeless: Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes, Transformative Solutions,” that is co-edited by Adam B. Summers and Mary L.G. Theroux.
China’s economic surge over the past thirty years is a story of mass migration—the largest migration in human history—as more than 260 million people left the countryside in search of urban jobs. Author Bradley M. Gardner shares what inspired him to write China's Great Migration.
Independent Institute Research Fellow Bradley M. Gardner presents his book China's Great Migration: How the Poor Built a Prosperous Nation book on August 4, 2017 at the Independent Institute.
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Research Fellow Bradley M Gardner talks about his book China’s Great Migration: How the Poor Built a Prosperous Nation China's Great Migration on The Trent England Show.
Recorded by: World Affairs
Independent Institute Research Fellow, Bradley M. Gardner conversation with N. Bruce Pickering Vice President of Global Programs, Asia Society and Executive Director, Asia Society Northern California, Asia Society.
Sharing insights from his recent book, "China’s Great Migration: How the Poor Built a Prosperous Nation", Bradley M. Gardner, shows how the migration of 260 million people from China’s rural countryside to its giant cities transformed the nation. He draws on on his extensive experience as a journalist and researcher working in China to explain how the largest economic migration in the history of the world transformed China into the industrial powerhouse it is today.
Research Fellow Bradley Gardner, author of China's Great Migration speaks with national radio host John Batchelor and his co-host, China expert Gordon Chang about China's great economic miracle. The migration of of more than 260 million people from their birthplaces to China's most economically vibrant cities. The migration has reshaped the global economy and also reshaped the country's culture and the government's grip on property rights. Gardner talks of his personal experience in China and what problems the new economy in China faces.
