Rat People reveals the tortured lives of the workers beneath Beijing
$19.95 | 197pp.Undocumented migrant workers who have come to the city to flee rural poverty, they live beneath the streets of Beijing in a squalid network of abandoned bomb shelters, tunnels and sewers, emerging to do the city’s dirty work for starvation wages, and retreating to sleep in a miasmic fetor of sweat, excrement, and a kind of humid filth that never entirely dries.
Before he had filed very many stories from the Chinese capital, he became aware that the city, home to more billionaires than New York and gleaming new skyscrapers and high-end shopping malls, rose arrogantly above the underground warrens where over one million rat people live. His new book is an account of his attempts to get to know these super-exploited workers and the families they left behind in rural villages.
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