{"title":"Xiao Hai","description":"\u003cp\u003eXiao Hai offers a deeply personal exploration of life through memoir, blending keen observation with poetic reflection. Readers can expect narratives that navigate the complexities of memory, identity, and the subtle moments that shape a life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWorks such as \u003cem\u003eAdrift in the South\u003c\/em\u003e reveal an intimate portrait of experience, inviting readers to engage with stories that are at once evocative and thoughtful. Xiao Hai’s writing resonates with quiet honesty and a lyrical sensibility.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"adrift-in-the-south-by-xiao-hai-9781738536269","title":"Adrift in the South","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Xiao Hai turned fifteen, his family paid a vocational-school teacher 1,200 yuan to find him a factory job in Shenzhen. So began fifteen years spent moving between the garment mills and electronics factories of China's fast-growing southern cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdrift in the South\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir of life as a migrant labourer in the twenty-first century, making iPhones and baby clothes, hand-stitching football shirts and cutting plastic into radios. Here, Xiao Hai reveals the alienation and tedium of factory life, the small indignities and indifference of the larger system. And he tells the story of how poetry led him somewhere unexpected: to join a small community of artists living, working, and studying together on the outskirts of Beijing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis memoir is a landmark text from China's migrant worker literature movement, a grassroots group of writers providing an unvarnished account of what life is like for the 300 million migrant workers powering the world's second-biggest economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47664152248556,"sku":"9781738536269","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781738536269-adrift-in-the-south.jpg?v=1779659797"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/xiao-hai.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}