From the Washington Post (link)
In an open clearing on a sunny winter day, Mrs. Liu looks as fashionable as any wannabe Shanghainese.
But her highlighted hair, black leather jacket, fake fur collar and high-heeled boots contrast sharply with the heaps of scrap rubber in a muddy hollow far from the city’s skyscrapers, where several Sichuanese migrants strip soles from worn-out shoes.
Liu, 36, would not give her full name because she wasn’t sure if work like hers was legal in Shanghai. But if sorting garbage is illegal, she and her family aren’t the only ones doing it.
