The Sky Dwellers (Preisgekrönte Romane)The novel is based on the story of young non state employed teachers in poor village in China during the 1990s, who played an important role in childrens education in the rural areas where the supply of formal state employed teachers was far from sufficient. Their sad struggle for equal treatment with their state employed peers reveal the hard times these devote and selfless teachers went through, whose existence and contribution, however, have been