The ‘wild’ writer who told the truth about work in China

The ‘wild’ writer who told the truth about work in China

How a Beijing courier’s story struck a chord and escaped the censors

The 'wild' writer who told the truth about work in China

For more than two decades Hu Anyan was one of the 300 million internal migrant workers who are the lifeblood of the world's second-biggest economy. For nearly 10 years he recorded his observations on a second-hand Huawei phone, an early Chinese-made rival to the first generation of iPhones, with a clunky Android operating system and a screen resolution about one-fifth of the quality of today's devices. For Hu the ''Beauty of 'Ordinary Things' is…