Laborer by day, dancer by night
Updated: 2013-10-11 09:52
By China Daily (China Daily)
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In mud-stained shoes and worn-out blue jeans, Peng Zhiwei is busy setting steel frames for a construction site in Changsha, Hunan province. The 43-year-old construction worker continues laboring on rainy days to earn money. After a hard day's work, he takes a shower, changes clothes and arrives at a dancing club. You can hardly recognize the man as the same Peng, now wearing tailored trousers and black leather shoes.
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Peng Zhiwei texts his dancing friends after work in his dorm, a refabricated container on the construction site. The room has only bunk beds. There is no wardrobe and no television set. |
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Peng waits for a bus to take him to a dance club. "I'm fond of dancing. It's not for making money. A migrant construction worker like me should have a hobby like everyone else." |
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Peng chats with his dancing partner at the dance club. Peng's dance partner is a teacher and is unaware that Peng works as a migrant construction worker. |
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Peng works at a construction site in Changsha, capital of Central China's Hunan province. Photos by Zhang Yinyu / for China Daily |
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Peng says he feels confident and happy when he dances. |
(China Daily European Weekly 10/11/2013 page5)
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