摘要
<正>Photographer Xin Ting captures workers at their happiest According to an apocryphal story about the late Qing dynasty (1616–1911), the formidable Empress Dowager Cixi invented the practice of smiling for the camera circa 1903.When Yu Derling, the empress’s French-educated lady-in-waiting,brought back a camera from abroad, the empress believed that the smoke-emitting contraption could steal a person’s soul—so to get her employer to smile,