... Picun Literature Group migrant worker literature Fan Yusu Li Ruo Xiao Hai The emergence of subaltern writing by rural migrant workers and grassroots writers like Yu Xiuhua constitutes one of the most noted developments in contemporary Chinese literature and has prompted debate over its...

...Li Ruo; Jiarui Sun The translator is grateful to Jennifer Feeley for her insightful comments and suggestions. The last time I saw Mumi was when she was harvesting rice in the field with her father-in-law. Her mother-in-law had completely given up, just letting them be. Mumi's parents...

... current research focuses on modern Chinese literature and the question of reading. Her other research interests include East Asian popular music, sound studies, and genre studies. Li Ruo worked at several factories in Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Beijing before returning to her hometown...

...; a short story by Li Ruo, a writer affiliated with the Picun Literature Group, translated by Jiarui Sun; and an interview with activist Wang Dezhi, translated by Max Bohnenkamp. 1 These four authors are all connected with Migrant Workers Home ( Gongyou zhi jia 工友之家; also “the Home” hereafter), one...

...., Chinese Academy of Social Sciences . Ortolani Benito . 1990 . The Japanese Theater: From Shamanistic to Contemporary Pluralism . Leiden : Brill . Picerni Federico . 2019 . “ Poetry from China––Li Ruo and Xiao Hai from the Picun Literary Group .” Dreaming Machine (blog), December...

... with the village. Third, Xiao Hai is recognized across the board as highly talented. Prior to his media exposure, this is demonstrated by the number of pages devoted to his work in the Literature Group's publications. Fellow Group member Li Ruo 李若 ( 2018 ) admiringly calls him a “dark horse.” In a scholarly...

... together like this can definitely stir the creativity of the laborers. Some members, like Fan Yusu, Li Ruo 李若, and Ji Tong 寂桐, had no prior writing experience. They became aware of literature as a useful instrument for conveying their emotions by participating in the Group's regular exchanges. “I am Fan...

... time a Chinese woman (Yan Shanshan) performing publicly-which was then read unabashedly- in the film Zhuangzi shiqi [Zhuangzi tests his wife], the first Hong Kong feature directed by Li Minwei (1892-1953) and produced...

...- shitsu meita) enthusiasm for imperialization that ends up as a pathetic fail- ure. Behind the caricature of Ch’s abortive attempt to become Japanese lies the author’s sympathy for the dominated, who are severed from their own culture and become...

... to Chengde. Hevia World Heritage, National Culture, and the Restoration of Chengde 225 Chengde and the Qing Empire Chengde lies in a valley containing a hot spring surrounded by novel rock structures and mountains. There is little doubt that this unique conver...

... medicine: dreams (meng).Danxi gives dreams special prominence by calling the disorder mengyi, or “dream emis- sions.”j7 Li Ting (fl. 1570), the renowned Ming physician, explains mengyi this way: “That which the heart longs for during...

... of the development of modern Chinese racial theory lies beyond the scope of this essay, I will highlight two crucial elements of Western racial discourse that informed the emerging Chinese discourse on hybridity or racial amalgamation.17...