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Last Train Home

Set against the backdrop of the world’s largest annual human migration, Last Train Home follows one migrant family as they try to go home for Chinese New Year to reunite with their teenage daughter. Sixteen years ago, the Zhangs left their children behind in their rural village to find work in the city. Now it may have cost them their hopes for their children's future.

Coming to Global Voices: Last Train Home

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Every spring, millions of migrant factory workers in China attempt to return to their rural home villages by train. It is an epic spectacle that tells us much about China, a country discarding traditional ways as it hurtles towards modernity and global economic dominance. Last Train Home draws us into the fractured lives of a single migrant family caught up in this desperate annual migration.

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