Book Club: Adrift in the South (Xiao Hai)

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China Books Review book club Join the latest China Books Review book club to discuss Adrift in the South https://granta.com/products/adrift in the south/ by Xiao Hai, tr. Tony Hao Granta Books, April 2026 , the account of the "23 dreamlike years" a Chinese migrant laborer spent working 17 jobs in seven different cities across China. Migrant workers' literature, or new workers' literature https://chinabooksreview.com/2026/05/21/workers literature/ , is the diverse output of a small cohort from the country's nearly 300 million internal migrants, who work for measly wages in cities where they are ineligible for residency and, therefore, healthcare, housing and other basic social protections. Adrift in the South rightly translated in unvarnished prose by Tony Hao is the po…

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