Many rich Chinese grew up poorly educated and knowing only privation.
The city is in the midst of knocking down its old high-rise housing projects, which concentrated the poor in pockets of crime and privation.
Exile, I am reminded, can be an escape from hell, a form of salvation, and not necessarily the state of privation and alienation it is often cracked up to be.
Green Point, Melville, and the Gini Coefficient I am wrapping up this latest southern Africa trip over the next couple of days. Almost a week in Green Point, Cape Town, followed by a final few days in Melville, Johannesburg, allows me to decompress, see friends, buy books, write and reflect on the cultures of privilege and privation ...
July 7, 2013 - Foreign Policy Blogs
Michael Chabon in Dallas Morning News Childhood is, or has been, or ought to be the great original adventure, a tale of privation, courage, constant vigilance, danger and sometimes calamity,Chabon writes.