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A worker sweeps the road along the construction site of the maglev from Shanghai to Beijing. An old fashioned broom seems little help against the engulfing ...
A worker and his daunting task. Breaking up the road that leads to the new bridge for the maglev. A big sledgehammer is all he has to reduce the concrete ...
A migrant worker holds his infant during a break. This house holds maybe twenty workers, their families, and belongings. Looming in the back is a bridge ...
Two workers stand atop a concrete pillar of the maglev they are building. Each of these pillars supports a giant concrete and steel piece that two ...
High atop one of the many pillars holding up the maglev, three workers look out over the construction site near Shanghai.
They invited my up, so ...
A new high-speed maglev train will connect Shanghai to Beijing, cutting travel times from 10.5 hours to four. The workers I spoke with in 2009 estimate ...
A young man climbs across the wall, rather than using the door to have a wash and say hello. Living next to an old factory that is slowly being dismantled ...
A little child clings to his ayi in an old alley. Typical for Shanghai, children often spend more time with their ayi (nanny) than with their parents ...
An old man looks at the remnants of his old home. Amidst the rubble, a few houses are still standing, their tenants still there.
A construction site in downtown Shanghai. While workers in the background clamber over mountains of steel, the guard has a bad day.