Chinese blogs, forums, and news sites these days have a tendency to focus on the city life, largely dominated by the new "Me" generation of urban Chinese, who stood witness to soaring living standards and loosening social codes. Money, sex, pop culture - these are the new icons of modern China, and while they undoubtedly represent a side of China that should be exposed, they are, at the same time, a facade, beneath which lies a different China, an older China that has never quite gone away. The following story offers a glimpse into the other side. http://www.chinasmack.com/stories/impoverished-farmer-father-abandoned-girl-daughter ------------------------------------------------------------
