[lbo-talk] Re: Indology: Vandalism and preservation

[jjlassen at chinastudygroup.org]

Hundreds of millions of migrant workers are travelling throughout China as we 
type. 1.9 billion trips are going to be made in the next few weeks there. This 
isn't a national border-crossing, of course, but perhaps we should be thinking 
beyond the nation-state, as traveling from the countryside to the city in China 
is probably *more* disorienting that most trips between countries.

The nomads are on the move.

Jonathan

Quoting Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>:


> As far as flows of human beings across national borders are 
> concerned, the world today is radically less fluid than a century ago.

The World Tourist Organization says 700 million international visits took place 
in 2002 alone. 

-- DRR

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