It’s not just Shanxi brick kilns. From the Opposite End of China comes this piece about Uighur child pickpockets. Again, there’s not a lot of free choice in the children’s situation.
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wangbo
A Kiwi teaching English to oil workers in Beijing, studying Chinese in my spare time, married to a beautiful Beijing lass, consuming vast quantities of green tea (usually Xihu Longjing/西湖龙井, if that means anything to you), eating good food (except for when I cook), missing good Kiwi ale, breathing smog, generally living as best I can outside Godzone and having a good time of it.