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...