In Urban China, a Vast Chasm

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Sim Chi Yin, In Urban China, a Vast Chasm. New York Times, Feb 10, 2013.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes ... -rich-and-the-rest/

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.

(b) SIM Chi Yin  沈 绮颖
(i)  沈绮颖, 圖輯：看不見風景的房間. FT中文網, 2013年02月9日.
http://big5.ftchinese.com/photonews/beijing_rooms_with_no_view
(ii) 沈绮颖, 记录北漂的生活(组图). 新华网, Sept 8, 2012
http://news.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2012-09/08/c_123689584.htm
is exactly the SAME.  
(iii)
http://qnck.cyol.com/html/2012-0 ... k_20120829_1-27.htm

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)