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At one station stop in Hunan on the way from Guizhou Province to the coast after the 1998 Spring Festival, my companions opened the window just long enough for me to take this picture of people trying to push their way into the train’s doorway. As soon as those in the back of this crowd saw our opened window, they rushed toward us. We were able to close it just before the crowd closed in.

“In order to form my own opinions on the role and prospects of China’s migrant labor, I decided the best place was not in books, newspaper articles and interviews with government officials, but rather on a hard-fought-for bench shared with migrant laborers.”

—China Fellow Daniel Wright