{"id":865,"date":"2015-04-21T07:20:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T07:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=865"},"modified":"2015-04-21T09:46:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T09:46:51","slug":"chinese-dreamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=865","title":{"rendered":"Chinese dreamer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_866\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-866\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aeon.co\/video\/society\/chinese-dreamer-the-life-of-a-migrant-worker-in-beijing-aeon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-866 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/worker1.jpg\" alt=\"Sharron Lovell, Tom Wang\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/worker1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/worker1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/worker1-199x112.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharron Lovell, Tom Wang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Will the so-called Chinese Dream come true for this 18-year-old from the country\u2019s 260 million migrant workers?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Chinese Dreamer\u00a0<\/em>follows the 18-year-old\u00a0Wanghao as he travels from his rural farm to Beijing to help support his struggling family. A few months later he is there, only to find the big city unwelcoming and realise he has little hope for a future beyond working menial jobs and sending money home. Wanghao\u00a0dreams of a better life, but with little education and few skills, he struggles to envision something other than difficult, thankless times ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_867\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-867\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aeon.co\/video\/society\/chinese-dreamer-the-life-of-a-migrant-worker-in-beijing-aeon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-867 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/worker2.jpg\" alt=\"Sharron Lovell, Tom Wang\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/worker2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/worker2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/worker2-199x112.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharron Lovell, Tom Wang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #808080;\">http:\/\/aeon.co\/video\/society\/chinese-dreamer-the-life-of-a-migrant-worker-in-beijing-aeon\/<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Published in\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><a style=\"color: #808080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/aeon.co\/video\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aeon Video<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> which streams contemporary and classic short documentaries, exploring the intersections between nature, culture and ideas.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Multimedia by Sharron Lovell<span style=\"line-height: 20px;\">\u00a0and Tom Wang.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #808080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">S<a style=\"color: #808080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sharron-lovell.com\" target=\"_blank\">harron Lovell<\/a><\/span><\/span> is\u00a0a visual journalist and educator. Currently based in Beijing, she is also the course leader for a Beijing-based, U.K. accredited Master\u2019s program in Multimedia Journalism.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><a style=\"color: #808080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tom.wang.7503314\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Wang<\/a> <\/span><\/span>hails from central China, where he studied multimedia journalism. He has always been a music and film lover and while studying in University discovered documentary film.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will the so-called Chinese Dream come true for this 18-year-old from the country\u2019s 260 million migrant workers? Chinese Dreamer\u00a0follows the 18-year-old\u00a0Wanghao as he travels from his rural farm to Beijing to help support his struggling family. A few months later he is there, only to find the big city unwelcoming and realise he has little &#8230; <a title=\"Chinese dreamer\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=865\" aria-label=\"Mehr Informationen \u00fcber Chinese dreamer\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}