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Migrant Workers

SOCIETY

The Workers in Limbo During Guangzhou’s Covid Outbreak

Workers in Guangzhou’s urban villages face days living on the streets as their residences restrict entry

Shihuan Chen

Nov. 19, 2022

LIFE

From Janitor to Painter: “With Art, I Have Somewhere to Unload My Burden”

How 50-year-old “cleaning auntie” Wang Liuyun discovered freedom in painting

Story FM & Ana Padilla Fornieles

Nov. 4, 2022

SOCIETY

Memoirs of a ‘Postpartum Nanny’

“We have no hope of being seen as human”: a writer recalls her mother’s struggles as a ‘yuesao,’ a nanny specializing in newborn and new mother care

Renjian the Livings & Nathaniel J. Gan

Nov. 1, 2022

LIFE

A Middle-Aged Nanny’s Literary Dreams in the City

Leaving behind an abusive marriage, a migrant worker from the countryside discovered a literature club and reignited her dreams of writing

Renjian the Livings & Hatty Liu

Oct. 2, 2022

SOCIETY

The “Bangbang” Laborer Who Saved Me From the Streets

When my father kicked me out, one of Chongqing’s “bangbang” porters took me in

Renjian the Livings & Nathaniel J. Gan

Sept. 20, 2022

LIFE

How are Shanghai’s Migrant Workers Surviving Lockdown?

Four migrant workers in Shanghai share their lockdown stories of food shortages and being unable to work

Zheng Yiwen (郑怡雯) & Anita He (贺文文)

April 13, 2022

SOCIETY

My Life Painting Thousands of Van Goghs on the Assembly Line

One migrant worker’s journey from reproducing Van Goghs in an “art factory” to painting on the streets of Amsterdam

Story FM & Nathaniel J. Gan

Dec. 12, 2021

SOCIETY

No Retirement Before Death: The Story of an Aging Migrant Worker

What’s it like battling poverty and being unable to retire as a migrant worker in China today?

Story FM

Nov. 5, 2021

FICTION

I’ve Never Had a Winning Ticket | Short Story

A tale of chance and mishap, from Chinese author Jiang Zijian

Jiang Zijian & Moy Hau

June 3, 2018

SOCIETY

End of Days

Doing business amid the dying detritus of old Beijing

Gopa Biswas Caesar

May 9, 2018

SOCIETY

The Noughty Nineties: The Worker

Millennials now comprise the majority of China’s migrant workers—from our cover story

Hatty Liu

May 5, 2018

NEWS

Just what do migrants contribute, anyway?

Beijing’s future economic plans leave little room for the itinerant and low-paid

Hatty Liu

Dec. 1, 2017

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