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No Lunch, No Money, No Rice: The Pursuit of Education in Asia
No Lunch, No Money, No Rice tells people’s stories—in their own words—of getting an education in Asia. Some of these stories are profound and inspiring, while others are funny. Many are both sad and enlightening.
The book title is an excerpt from the interview of Xue, age 22, a farmer in Lao Chai village, outside Sapa, Vietnam. When Xue was asked why she had never been to school, she replied,
"When I was a girl, I asked my father if I can go to school and he say to me, 'We have no lunch, no money, no rice, no pig, so you cannot go to school.' "
A profound, yet sadly uncommon, reason for not going to school.