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Street Vendor Life in China

Sociologist Tricia Wang has written an account of her time living and working with a family of street food vendors. The family faces relentless and exhausting 18-hour days, cramped and unhygienic living conditions, exorbitant electricity bills and the threat of interference from heavy-handed city management officials. The family I am living with received a tip from a friend about a construction site