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In Shanghai, they staged a spectacular two-day strike against exorbitant rentals charged by the ricksha owners.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the 400,000 ricksha men have no knowledge of any other livelihood.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Shanghai, since 1933, ricksha men pay 4�� a day for social security to the municipal government's "Ricksha Pullers' Mutual Aid Association."

From Time Magazine Archive

King was borne in on a red-draped gold divan by four bare-chested men wearing slave armbands, while Riggs entered in a ricksha pulled by five of the ample girls he refers to as "bosom buddies."

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Most ricksha coolies didn’t live to be thirty, my father said.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz