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Adrift in the South
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Product Details
Author:
Xiao Hai, Tony Hao
Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Granta Publications (June 9, 2026)
Imprint:
Granta Magazine Editions
Release Date:
June 9, 2026
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9781738536269
ISBN-10:
1738536262
Weight:
10.4oz
File:
PGW-LEGATO-Metadata_Only_Publishers_Group_West_Customer_Group_Metadata_20260521174654-20260521.xml
Folder:
PGW
List Price:
$18.99
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Pub Discount:
60
Case Pack:
48
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$16.33
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
C
Pages:
320
Overview
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.