YANTIAN IS STILL called a village, but these days it is an urban sprawl on the outskirts of Dongguan, a southern Chinese city famed forits labour-intensive factories and sleazy nightlife. Almost all of Yantian's inhabitants are migrants from other villages: young men and women whose toil helped create an industrial boomtown in a former expanse of paddyfields. As migrants, almostall of them are in effectshut out from the best schools and hospitals, as they are from local politics, Yantian is ruled by the Deng clan.
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