The World From Below

Place

China · Northeast

Shenyang

Once the iron heart of Chinese socialist industry. After the layoffs, a city reckoning with what remains.

Illustrative photograph of the Shenyang skyline, Liaoning, China (Wikimedia Commons / E2568, CC0). Editorial place card image — not a named factory or interviewee site.

Illustrative — Shenyang skyline (Wikimedia Commons / E2568, CC0). Used to identify the city, not a specific workplace or subject. · Credit: E2568 / Wikimedia Commons · Source: Wikimedia Commons (CC0)

Stories

The Child Who Only Had to Study

In a northern working-class house, one child is kept away from the world so he can pass exams. The other is sent out to learn it. A reading of chapter 8 of 王医生与张医生.

Library

Factory Girls

Leslie T. Chang

王医生与张医生

Yi Xianfeng and Yang Ying (伊险峰 杨樱)