A look at China's raise to develop be offset the instability of wider freedoms.

Xiao Nao is a single university graduate working as an ad copywriter in Shanghai. She has a year of work experience and could probably go elsewhere and live better, but she stays, and survives, on 1,000 RMB per month.

Shanghaiist translates here story.

A story (translated via ESWN) by a young girl who after saying goodbye at the train station to her friends stumbles into an eye-opening experience with China's poor.

Befriending an elderly woman collecting rubbish for the little money it provides, the girl helps her pick up bottles and any rubbish of value. The girl then helps the woman bring the garbage back to her small, impoverished community, in turn opening the girl to a side of her city she'd never dreamt still existed in the 21st century. A touching photojournal of the girl's journey.