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Good Ol’ Times: The Simple Roadside Barbers of China

In China, barbers used to traditionally operate on street sides. Only in modern times has customer privacy become a thing in barbershops. Nowadays, only a few street barbers remain in China, mostly old-timers who just keep on doing what they’ve been doing for a long time. But when they finally retire, it’ll be the end ...

Max Lu

A street barber.