Note:
(a) In the print version, there is ONE photograph and five-paragraph text.
(i) The photo is the penultimate one in the blog: a Shanghai resident about to be dsiplaced.
(ii) the five paragraphs:
"The gulf between China's prosperous and booming cities and the poor rural areas, has been expanding since the 1990s, and become a major source of social unrest. My work has focused on the income gap in both places.
"In Shanghai, I followed around a trash collector, Zhang Chunying, 47, riding on the back of her cardboard- and plastic-laden tricycle past Gucci and Ermenegildo Zegna stores at the Xintiandi shopping and entertainment district. Downtown, I photographed migrant workers on a street in downtown Shanghai that turns into a flea market at night.
"In Beijing, I found a curbside cobbler, Gao Minghe, 48, across the street from five-star hotels. Beneath the skyscrapers and apartment blocks, a parallel universe of inhabitants lives in cramped, windowless rooms partitioned out of basements.
"I have also shot the so-called 'ant tribe': graduates from provincial and unprestigious universities who flock to the capital in search of their Beijing Dream, only to find themselves working low-paying jobs and living in dorm-style hostels on the outskirts of the city.
"At a Beijing racetrack, I hung out with the young and wealthy members of a sports car club who did practice rounds in their McLarens, Lamborghinis, Ferraris and Porsches at a racetrack in Beijing. Decked out in Prada shoes, holding Louis Vuitton bags and escorted by their trophy girlfriends, who never stepped out of their air-conditioned cars, they seemed proud to be noticed by a foreign photographer, but were not forthcoming when asked any personal questions.
This Chinese article was translated from the English original at Strait Times (Singapore), but in the website of the latter I can not find the English original, presumably because it was old.
(c)
Lujiazui 陆家嘴
Shanghai Tower 上海中心大厦
Zhabei 上海市闸北区
Shanghai IFC 上海国际金融中心 (IFC: International Finance Centre)