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Zheng Xiaoqiong

Born

in Nanchong, Sichuan Province, China

June 18, 1980

Genre

Poetry

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Zheng Xiaoqiong (Chinese name: 郑小琼) was born in Nanchong, a city in the southwestern province of Sichuan. After nursing school, she worked in a local hospital for a time, but, unhappy with the working conditions, she left in 2001. She headed to Dongguan, which, like Guangzhou and Shenzhen, is one of the major industrial cities in the south where many Chinese migrant workers have settled over the past decades in hopes of a better life. There, she worked on assembly lines in various factories. After a while, she started to write poetry in which the life of factory workers plays a large part. Soon her work was noticed. Around 2007, she broke through and she has published almost a dozen collections, won a great many awards, and been translated ...more

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	Granta 169: China by Thomas Meaney (Editor), Yu Hua (Contributor), Mo Yan (Contributor) 4.18 avg rating — 162 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Roar of the Machine by Zheng Xiaoqiong, Eleanor Goodman (Translator) 4.62 avg rating — 21 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Versi di umana resistenza by Zheng Xiaoqiong, Serena Zuccheri (Translator) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Als ijzer zo stil by Zheng Xiaoqiong, Silvia Marijnissen (Translator and editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Needle Hole through the Constellations liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Migrant Ecologies: Zheng Xiaoqiong's Women Migrant Workers by Xiaojing Zhou, Zheng Xiaoqiong 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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