I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan audiobook review – a grim life in China’s gig economy ⊖⊖
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This memoir of a man who moved around China chasing low-paid work for 20 years is an indictment of a shocking system, read in a suitably austere way
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From the early 2000s until the Covid lockdowns, Hu Anyan was one of China’s vast ar…
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