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Every morning, a metamorphosis takes place below the ground of China’s capital. In a world without sun or fresh air, people roll out of bed in windowless rooms, empty bedpans into communal toilets, pay 50 cents for a five-minute shower, ascend concrete stairways to the outside world and transform themselves from residents of the city’s most despised housing to strivers, hungry for a piece of the Chinese dream. These new Beijingers, who number about 1 million, are known as members of the “rat tribe.” Learn more:
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 17:00:00 +0000

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