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I and We in Picun: The Making of Chinese Poet Xiao Hai
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 303–331.
Published: 01 May 2023
... culture and their easy association with political power and resistance, respectively. As a member of the Picun Literature Group who expertly navigates this space, Xiao Hai has become a representative of the Picun “brand,” building a mediagenic public persona in the process. Who is Xiao Hai? What does his...
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The “Unlikely Writers” from Picun: Reinventing Literature and Politics at the Migrant Workers Home
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 333–355.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Chun Chun Ting Abstract In response to Sun Wanning's (2014) critique that individual desire for recognition has limited the political potential of migrant worker literature, this article looks to the Picun Literature Group at the Migrant Workers Home to examine the dynamic between the collective...
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Literature as Medium: The Development and Cultural Space of New Worker Literature
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 451–471.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of literature to speak with their own voices, which is particularly remarkable in the age of the internet. Second, workers’ culture spaces like the Picun Literature Group, from which Fan Yusu emerged, not only support ordinary laborers’ active interest in writing but also represent a specific cultural practice...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 257–279.
Published: 01 May 2023
...; 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...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 523–527.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., investigates the literary and social practice of the Picun Literature Group. A side project concerns a transcultural perspective on Sino-Italian cultural productions. His output has appeared in International Quarterly for Asian Studies , Made in China Journal , and Asian Studies , among others. Currently...
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Village Songs and the Building of Community Culture: A Talk
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 485–506.
Published: 01 May 2023
... Duo is still working in Picun. Many songs from our new album, Start Anew ( Cong tou yue 从头越), are adapted from poems written by members of the Picun Literature Group. I believe that we should keep doing this kind of work. As for the village songs, we've just started. Another point is that some...
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Musica Practica : The Sound of the Beijing New Worker Band
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 281–301.
Published: 01 May 2023
... is that of the Picun Literature Group, 5 churning out star members such as Fan Yusu, a talented domestic-worker-cum-writer whose sharp and yet humane portrayal of urban life garnered critical acclaim and earned her international coverage through the Guardian and the Los Angeles Review of Books . In contrast, far...
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Epistemic Labor: Narratives of Hyper-Uncertainty and Future-Making on China's Urban Fringe
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 431–450.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., urban villages are understood as the space of workers. Thus, in under a decade, an epistemological paradigm shift occurred in the representation of Beijing's urban villages in scholarly literature. Zhejiangcun represented an entrepreneurial space, while Picun was primarily understood as a workers...
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Daizō Sakurai's Trans-Asian Tent Theater, Picun, and the Reenchantment of Urban Space
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 357–378.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of the Migrant Workers Museum in Picun. 11 Zhou and Sun's Crow 2 Topia showcases an eclectic group of characters who inhabit a waste dump on the outskirts of an anonymous city in mainland China. 12 The figures share the unsightly space, but their stories do not form a coherent plot. The drama...
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How to Create a New Workers’ Culture Together: An Interview with Wang Dezhi
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 507–521.
Published: 01 May 2023
... a school in 2005 (the Tongxin Experimental School) for the children of migrant workers in Picun in Beijing's Chaoyang district. In 2008, we rented a large courtyard and set up the Migrant Workers Museum, the Tongxin Secondhand Shop, the Workers Library, the Workers Movie Theater, and even a space...
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On Mourning and Solidarities, on Poetry and Translation: A Note from the Associate Editor
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positions (2025) 33 (1): 21–28.
Published: 01 February 2025
... . 1981 . Call to Arms . Translated by Xianyi Yang and Yang Gladys . Beijing : Foreign Languages . Ting Chun Chun . 2023 . “ The ‘Unlikely Writers’ from Picun: Reinventing Literature and Politics at the Migrant Workers Home .” positions 31 , no. 2 : 333 – 55 . https...
