China's First Document (Investigation Manuscript of China's Household Registration System)

Author: Tian Bingxin
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: The study of the household registration system has always been a sensitive issue. Every Chinese person has a unique experience with the hukou system, whether it's joy or sorrow, worry or grief, crying or protesting—it's hard to break free from its constraints. From this book, you can find the shadows of struggle and the sighs of loss of you or your family caught in the middle. Every system has flaws. Systems are a form of life. They also have birth, growth, aging, and death. The household registration system is no exception. Without time, any system is full of loopholes. The key is the angle from which you observe, analyze, and dissect it. The habit of wearing a mask leads to numbness, and cultural explanations have a thousand variations. The hukou system is too close to us and too complex; it's not easy to explain clearly. This book provides a distance, a sense of strangeness, and a stinging pain.