July 2024: 又一生 农民工 稀里糊涂又一生 异地谋生万事难 醉来明月应笑我 只添白发未添钱 Translation In Mist By "A Migrant Worker" Blundering — another life drifted in mist,...

March 2024: 来世但求少风波 农民工 人生路上风雨多 满腹心酸谁人说 今生受尽万般苦 来世但求少风波 Translation Fewer Storms Next Time By "A Migrant Worker" Along life's road the...

January 2024: 一床破被 土木学长 一床破被天下游 建筑工地度春秋 可叹吾生命太苦 笑问苍天合适休 Translation One Tattered Quilt With one tattered quilt, the world becomes my bed,...

January 2024: 无牵无挂 三和“大神” 无权无势无老婆 无儿无女无负担 无忧无虑无波澜 无牵无挂无羁绊 Translation Unbound No power, no prestige, no partner by my side, No son, no...

January 2024: 成年方晓 三和“大神” 成年方晓世事难 一日三餐为油盐 尝遍坎坷人生路 诗词不能换酒钱 Translation When Grown Only when grown do I learn how harsh the world can be;...

December 2023: 穷人 三和“大神” 初来人间不知苦 潦草半生一身无 转身回望来时路 才知生时为何哭 Translation The Poor I stepped into this world I knowing of no pain, Half a life...

October 2023: 含辛茹苦 现代·三和“大神” 含辛茹苦怕儿饥 常遭虾戏王八欺 若不一生求富贵 谁愿人前把头低 Translation: Bow for Bread I swallow bitter days so my child will not go...

Writing is an individual exercise. Nonetheless, this book could not exist without “strangers.” Over the past three years I approached...

Recognition, therefore, confers political weight. When a city recognizes the presence and contribution of migrant workers—by extending...

If invisibility is the working class’s occupational hazard, misrepresentation is its shadow. It follows that in writing the eleven...

Understanding the city on a human scale is vital. Shenzhen’s shimmering skyline, luminous nightscape, and concrete cosmos house an...

The method of this book is therefore at once ethnographic and civic. I did not arrive at a conclusion and then come up with the story. I...

When I tell people that I spent a summer working at a garment factory in Shenzhen, or my weekends standing at its gate to interview...

November 17th, 2024: In Shenzhen, the skyline rises with glass and steel, but just beneath the city’s shiny surface, Yulv village remains...

Shenzhen, Guangdong, August 18th, 2025 —  Coming in September 2025, Albert Z. Wang's book The Other Half of Modern China: Eleven Stories...

New York, NY,  March 28th, 2025  —  Albert Z. Wang, founder of Humans of Shenzhen, was featured in New York Times for his photo essay on...

COLLEGE PARK, MD,  June 13th, 2025  —  Albert Z. Wang, founder of Humans of Shenzhen, recently competed in the National History Day ®...

January 2024: When the foreman’s bell shatters the air to ash, Quivering elbows enter the conveyor’s pulsed refrain. (A hammer howls, and...

June 2023: Synthetic silk sewing, stitching, scribbling the garment makers —Smoke was pumped into the sky—as usual. Fair factories...

October 2024: We flip to an empty page as your emptiness fails to flip The switch of our minds, dragging, droning, drowning, Pulses...