Hu Anyan’s memoir about working in the Chinese gig economy began life as a blog before being turned into a wildly successful book that has sold nearly 2m copies in China. It... Read more »
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan review – startling stories of China’s new precarity | Books
From the early 2000s until the Covid lockdowns, Hu Anyan was one of China’s vast army of internal migrants, moving between cities in pursuit of work. He did 19 jobs – shop assistant,... Read more »
China’s rise and its importance to international relations as a discipline-defining phenomenon is well recognized. Yet when scholars analyze China’s foreign relations, they typically focus on Beijing’s military power, economic might, or... Read more »