I Deliver Parcels in Beijing - On Making a Living

I Deliver Parcels in Beijing is his account of his life as a low-wage worker in the anonymous mega-cities of modern China. From the psychology of the pecking order on a parcel-sorting factory floor to the perfect alcohol dose to get some daylight shut-eye before a punishing night shift, from the Kafkaesque bureaucracy of the hiring departments to the ideal layout of a delivery route, Hu''s sincere curiosity and deadpan humour highlights the human story behind the drudgery. Harnessing his love of literature, Hu begins to discover a new, freeing way of looking at and recording his world.<>

Product details

• Authors: Hu AnYan
• Assisted by: Hargreaves Jack (Translation)
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 04.09.2025
• EAN: 9780241733820
• ISBN: 978-0-241-73382-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 222 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; China, Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, Literary essays, Social classes, Urban communities, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Asian & Asian American