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...

May 31st, 2025: Ms. Li (Auntie Li), second from the right, leading assistive device applicants to their assigned evaluators Note:...

May 31st, 2025: Ms. Li (Auntie Li), first from the right, leading assistive device applicants to their assigned evaluators Note: Language...

May 31st, 2025: Ms. Li (Auntie Li), second from the right, leading assistive device applicants to their assigned evaluators Note:...

May 25th, 2025: Uncle He (second from the left) and I (third from the left), at Futian Disability Center's reception area Q&A: A...

May 25th, 2025: Uncle He (second from the left) and I (third from the left), at Futian Disability Center's reception area Family Trust,...

May 25th, 2025: Uncle He (second from the left) and I (third from the left), at Futian Disability Center's reception area Building...

May 25th, 2025: Uncle He (second from the left) and I (third from the left), at Futian Disability Center's reception area The Legal...