In 2006, when 108 former Shanghai residents returned to the city for what they called a “Rickshaw Reunion,” Rene Willdorff, the 78-year-old organizer, told JTA of his experiences after ...

But what came into view was a rickshaw. Instead of being pulled by a horse, it was being pulled by a man—usually a skinny, bedraggled, barefoot man who didn’t look quite up to the task.

In one such instance, a viral video captured an electric rickshaw driver on a flyover, speeding past traffic while precariously carrying large sheets of wood on his vehicle. The video makes it ...