Sociologist Ben Ross, a doctoral student at the University of Chicago, focuses on Chinese labor migration and related issues. He first got noticed by Sinica in 2007 while writing a blog about working as the only foreign "hair-washing trainee" in a Fuzhou hair salon. Listen to his interview this week with Kaiser and David Moser in Beijing and Jeremy Goldkorn calling in from the U.S.
Photo Gallery
03.03.15
Migrant Hair
This photo series of Chinese hairdressers was made in the spring of 2012, in the city center of Chengdu in Sichuan province. There, some 16 percent of the city’s nearly 12 million residents are recent immigrants, like the individuals photographed in...
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