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Wanning Sun, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Technology Sydney

China’s new literary star had 19 jobs before ‘writer’ – including bike courier and bakery apprentice

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Delivering parcels is just one of the 19 different jobs Hu Anyan cycles through over 20 years, as tracked in his Chinese bestseller I Deliver Parcels in Beijing. He also tries his luck working as a convenience-store clerk, a cleaner and in a bike shop, a warehouse, a vegetable market and even an anime design company – always at the very bottom of the ladder.


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