‘I Deliver Parcels in Beijing’, by Hu Anyan.

I like this book. Describes the various very low paid jobs the author did.

As The Guardian’s book review puts it, ‘The low-paid Chinese worker is at the mercy of an entirely unrestrained market.‘

theguardian.com/books/2025/oct…

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I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan review – startling stories of China’s new precarity

The viral blog turned book details the exhausting life of a courier, but something may have been lost in translation

^{Joe Moran (The Guardian)}