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Surge

Photography: David A Gray

Text: Paul Summers

Surge captures the essence of 21st Century urban China; a chaotic flux of communism and capital, people and commodity, belonging and alienation. At the height of its regeneration and reinvention over 10 million migrant workers poured into Shanghai from the impoverished rural provinces; to them, the city is both sacrifice and salvation, gulag and home.

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