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Farther along the street, a bangbang man wandered into the distance carrying his bamboo pole.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Arriving from the countryside with no skills and minimal education, they picked up the cheapest of tools—a bamboo pole or bangbang and some rope—and hung around the docks, the markets, and the bus stations waiting for goods to carry up the steep slopes of this mountain port.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Farther along the street, a bangbang man wandered into the distance carrying his bamboo pole.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Arriving from the countryside with no skills and minimal education, they picked up the cheapest of tools—a bamboo pole or bangbang and some rope—and hung around the docks, the markets, and the bus stations waiting for goods to carry up the steep slopes of this mountain port.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Farther along the street, a bangbang man wandered into the distance carrying his bamboo pole.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Arriving from the countryside with no skills and minimal education, they picked up the cheapest of tools—a bamboo pole or bangbang and some rope—and hung around the docks, the markets, and the bus stations waiting for goods to carry up the steep slopes of this mountain port.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Thing is, the ‘official’ story is he got a ‘bad’ phone call that was never really fully described; hung up phone and started the bangbang biz.
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Would you like mister bangbang here to shoot the robber if your kid was in that Burger King?
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Zeng Lei, a documentary filmmaker who spent seven years recording the lives of Chongqing’s poorest residents, related unhappy anecdotes of urban life: the bangbang man who burst into tears when he returned to his home village for the first time in three years; the housewife who felt so neglected by her family that she hired a team of bangbang men to carry banners through the city celebrating her birthday.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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If you don’t want to carry something, you just hire a bangbang man.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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