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Adrift in the south / Xiao Hai ; translated by Tony Hao.
Lippincott Library HD8737.H35 A3 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hai, Xiao, 1987- author.
- Series:
- Granta magazine editions
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hai, Xiao, 1987-.
- Hai, Xiao.
- Casual labor--China--Social conditions.
- Casual labor.
- Migrant labor--China--Social conditions.
- Migrant labor.
- Work environment--Social aspects--China.
- Work environment.
- Migrant labor--Social conditions.
- Work environment--Social aspects.
- China.
- Genre:
- Translations
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 312 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Granta Magazine Editions, 2026.
- Summary:
- "When Xiao Hai turned fifteen, his family paid a vocational-school teacher 1,200 yuan to find him a factory job in Shenzhen. So began a decade spent moving between the garment mills and electronics factories of China's fast-growing southern cities. Adrift in the South is a first-hand account of a life spent dodging corrupt officials and abusive employers, working long hours in brutal conditions and sleeping in overcrowded dormitories. Xiao Hai gives voice to a generation of migrant workers searching for survival, meaning and dignity in a country undergoing dramatic economic and political transformation. A landmark work from China's migrant worker literature movement, this memoir offers a rare perspective on the human cost of the country's economic rise"--Publisher's description.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Chinese.
- ISBN:
- 9781738536269
- 1738536262
- OCLC:
- 1581574413
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000356861
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