China's latest blockbuster casts rare, harsh light on gig economy

  • 9 days ago
China's latest blockbuster "Upstream" tells the story of a middle-aged programmer who is laid off, shut out of white-collar jobs because of his age and pushed into the perilous food-delivery gig economy to try to keep his family afloat, addressing a social issue of a kind not often highlighted by recent films in China. - REUTERS

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