Last Train Home Where: Red Vic Movie House, 1727 Haight St., 415-668-3994 When: Jan. 23 - 24 Why: It's an annual tradition created by accelerated modernization, an expanding
economy and the world's largest populace: Each year, 130 million Chinese
peasants, displaced from their villages to
work in urban factories, crowd train stations to return home for the New Year.
However, indigenous and
peasant organizations called it unconstitutional, stating that it would destroy their agricultural
economy, threaten traditional systems of land tenure and drive thousands to immigrate to city slums in search of
work.