A cart makes a handy bed for this Shanghai worker on lunch break.
Population pressure forces people to adapt and invent, and both adaptation and invention, along with fatigue, are values shared and understood by humans the world over, not just in China. But I did see many people sleeping at midday in public while in China – it is just part of the scene, and accepted as such. I thought this image was particularly incongruous because a cart is not usually perceived as a bed, yet this one serves that purpose well. I also was able to effectively organize this photograph around the repeating diagonal lines offered by the ropes, legs, and pipes.