China's First Document: Investigation Manuscript of China's Household Registration System: 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, whether joyful or sorrowful, worried or troubled, crying or protesting—it's hard to escape the constraints of the hukou. From this book, you can find the shadows of struggle and the sighs of loss of you or your family in the middle. Any system has flaws. A system is a form of life. Systems also have birth, growth, aging, and death. The household registration system is no exception. Over time, any system becomes full of loopholes. The key is the perspective from which you observe, analyze, and dissect it. The habit of covering up is numbness, and cultural explanations have a thousand variations. The hukou is too close to us, too complex—it's not easy to explain clearly. This book provides a distance, a sense of strangeness, and a stinging pain.