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The Makers of Modern China • EQUATOR For many years, Zheng Xiaoqiong has collected the stories of the workers whose migration to Guangdong powered China’s manufacturing revolution

New @equatormag.bsky.social: Zheng Xiaoqiong’s revelatory oral history of migrant laborers in Guangdong’s factories. These stories, which were too sensitive to publish in China, appear here for the first time in any language, in Eleanor Goodman’s translation:
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Imagining the ‘Utopia of Homeownership’: Tracing the Online Virality of a Chinese Rust Belt City ‘I have saved up 50,000 yuan, planning to buy a house in Hegang. I will budget 30,000–40,000 yuan for the house itself, and the remaining 10,000 for living supplies.’ This post went viral on the Chine...

Burned out and fed up with the grind, Chinese youth turned Hegang—a struggling coal town with bargain-basement housing—into a symbol of escape and rest. In this essay, Siyu Tang explores how social media fantasies of starting over became a way to channel anxiety, fear, and quiet rebellion.

5 years after Fang Fang recorded Wuhan lockdown, 2 of her books are being translated Chinese author Fang Fang posted notes online while being quarantined in Wuhan. They became Wuhan Diary. She talks with us about two more of her books now coming to English readers.

A rare interview by @npr.org @jruwitch.bsky.social with Fang Fang, the renowned Chinese writer.

Soft Burial, she says, is about "how people tend to bury painful memories and refuse to confront past traumas…"
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More unofficial poetry online and a (livestreamed) symposium About 25,000 pages of new material have been added to the digital collection of unofficial poetry from China at Leiden University Libraries, the online archive of a groundbreaking cultural traditio…

This Friday
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