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Humans of Shenzhen
New Book Release: The Other Half of Modern China
Shenzhen, Guangdong, August 18th, 2025 — Coming in September 2025, Albert Z. Wang's book The Other Half of Modern China: Eleven Stories...
Albert Wang
Sep 233 min read
Founder of HoSZ Is Featured in The New York Times
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...
Albert Wang
Sep 231 min read
Founder of HoSZ Became the First Chinese Winner of National History Day Contest
COLLEGE PARK, MD, June 13th, 2025 — Albert Z. Wang, founder of Humans of Shenzhen, recently competed in the National History Day ®...
Albert Wang
Sep 233 min read
Workers' Poem (3): Workday Liturgy in B Minor, a Villanelle
January 2024: When the foreman’s bell shatters the air to ash, Quivering elbows enter the conveyor’s pulsed refrain. (A hammer howls, and...
Albert Wang
Sep 91 min read
Workers' Poem (2): Silk, a Pantoum
June 2023: Synthetic silk sewing, stitching, scribbling the garment makers —Smoke was pumped into the sky—as usual. Fair factories...
Albert Wang
Sep 91 min read
Workers' Poem (1): Brave, New, Amnesiac World
October 2024: We flip to an empty page as your emptiness fails to flip The switch of our minds, dragging, droning, drowning, Pulses...
Albert Wang
Sep 92 min read
International Women's Day Keynote: In the Shadow of Pothos
For six weeks in my freshman and sophomore summers, I immersed myself in the world of textile workers—from fast fashion factories they...
Albert Wang
Sep 97 min read
TED Talk: How the Other Half Lives (Today): Hukou System & China's Urban Villages
April 2025: Have you ever tried to register for something and been told, “Sorry, your number isn’t on the list”? I went to the Guangzhou...
Albert Wang
Sep 96 min read
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