Adrift in the South

At fifteen, Xiao Hai left home for a factory job in Shenzhen. The decade that followed carried him through the garment mills and electronics plants of southern China: punishing shifts, overcrowded dorms, exploitative bosses and officials to stay one step ahead of.

Translated by Tony Hao and published by Granta, this memoir comes out of China's migrant-worker literature movement. It is a first-hand account of the people who built the country's economic boom, and of a generation looking for survival, meaning and dignity while everything around them was changing.

中国打工文学回忆录的英译本：作者十五岁起在深圳等南方城市的工厂间辗转十年的亲身经历。此书为英文版。