Deborah Jian Lee
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Reporting
for this article
was funded by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Deborah Jian Lee
(@deborahjianlee) and Sushma Subramanian are freelance journalists based in New
York City. Their reporting on other China population issues can be found here. Alex Li contributed
reporting. This is the second dispatch in their two-part series about a family
of migrant workers in China.
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