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A Long Way Back From 2004 to 2020

In the early hours of the morning in Shanghai, 2004, a man pulling a three-wheel cart cycles through the streets.

Hunched over his handlebars, he meanders through the jumble of alleyways crowded with furniture being sold by elderly couples, passing under clotheslines tensed between the cramped backroads of buildings. He cruises by a man cooking breakfast outside his repair shop and zigzags through the heaps of bamboo poles waiting to be fashioned into scaffolding. Using his

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