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By Wen-Hsuan Tseng

Last Train Home, an award-winning documentary directed by Chinese-Canadian director Lixin Fan, will open in New York on September 3rd at IFC Center. Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the world's largest human migration--an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future.