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positions (2023) 31 (2): 303–331.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Maghiel van Crevel Abstract Xiao Hai left home at age fifteen as one of roughly three hundred million domestic migrant workers whose labor has contributed to China's rise since the 1980s. He was a factory worker in a string of cities for a good dozen years: think assembly line, overtime...
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Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 1 Photo of Xiao Hai in 2017, in the Migrant Workers Home library/reading room, holding a copy of Haizi's collected works. His hat says “Work hard play hard.” The white front cover of Howl in the Factory , his own collection of poetry, published in the unofficial Picun series, is visible More
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 333–355.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., activist setting and the individual authors’ struggle with literary and political practice. Combining the literary technique of close reading with anthropological fieldwork, the article describes how the Group encourages and influences its members’ literary production. The works of Xiao Hai, Fan Yusu, Li...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 451–471.
Published: 01 May 2023
... . Buffalo, NY : White Pine . van Crevel Maghiel . 2019 . “ Misfit: Xu Lizhi and Battlers Poetry ( Dagong shige ) .” Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature 6 , no. 1 : 85 – 114 . Xiao Hai 小海 . 2017 . Gongchang de haojiao: Xiao Hai de shi 工厂的嚎叫:小海的诗 ( Howl of the Factory: Poems...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 281–301.
Published: 01 May 2023
... Liqi, and Xiao Hai. 9 See “Zuoyi yaogun qingnian zhi xin gongren yishutuan” 左翼摇滚青年之新工人艺术团 (The Leftist Rock Youth's New Worker Art Troupe), http://m.wyzxwk.com/content.php?classid=23&id=356779 (accessed February 12, 2023). 10 “Zuoyi yaogun qingnian zhi xin gongren yishutuan” 左翼摇滚青年之...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 515–543.
Published: 01 August 2015
... by engaging in affective labor but also creating a “new idealism”—a sense of hope for their future rooted in commercial activity and conditioned by state supervision that results in the formation of new subjectivities. This article provides a close reading of Chen Xiao's story, a young unemployed college...
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positions (2004) 12 (2): 299–327.
Published: 01 May 2004
... of these shows was found in an 1884 issue of Dianshizhai huabao (Dianshizhai Pictorial), which reported an American displaying a barbarian’s head in the famous Shang- hai teahouse Diyilou (The First Lounge).19 Rania Huntington also documents...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 357–378.
Published: 01 May 2023
... from China––Li Ruo and Xiao Hai from the Picun Literary Group .” Dreaming Machine (blog), December 1 . http://www.thedreamingmachine.com/poetry-from-china-li-ruo-and-from-the-picun-literary-group-translated-by-federico-picerni/ . Sakurai Daizō 樱井大造 . 2013 . “Riben zhangpeng xiju...
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positions (2008) 16 (2): 409–433.
Published: 01 May 2008
..., from preliminary haixuan to final competition, was thus only 1 out of 10,000. This fact provides a second understanding of haixuan — hai means “sea” in Chinese, with implications of “vastness” and “mass participation...
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positions (2002) 10 (3): 695–727.
Published: 01 August 2002
... Huang Yi,The Psychology of Children’s Drawings (Shang- hai: Commercial Press, 1937), fig. 26 are analyzed solely in terms of their progress toward an already established goal, that of realistic representation. Significantly...
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positions (2016) 24 (2): 435–479.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of Animals in Animated Film during the Chinese Cultural Revolution 437 live-­action feature film entitledWuya yu maque (Crows and Sparrows, 1949). Revolving around the petty urbanites living in an alleyway house in Shang- hai, this film recounts...
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positions (2008) 16 (2): 389–407.
Published: 01 May 2008
... critique of contempo- rary society, in which he pushes to the limits the discourse he began in The Hole. The language of emotion is here always connected to sexual behav- ior, but sex is just a job — the fictional character Xiao Kang has become...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 431–450.
Published: 01 May 2023
... agency as a key domain of inquiry for understanding the human condition and human actions. 4 Author's estimate. 5 Fieldwork notes, Beijing, 2014. 6 This resonates with Maghiel van Crevel's emphasis on a “lucky break” as one of the factors contributing to the making of the poet Xiao...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 257–279.
Published: 01 May 2023
...” denotes the very conditions of possibility of what he calls “battler poetry” ( dagong shige 打工诗歌) and the opportunities for boundary-crossing that it brings its authors and readers linguistically and socially, on the page and in real life. By studying the writings of Xiao Hai, a “poster boy for a poster...
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positions (1999) 7 (2): 343–375.
Published: 01 May 1999
... months when I met Xiao Li (a pseudonym). Xiao Li’s mother had been one of the barefoot doctors who brought medical care to rural Hunan; his father was a factory worker. The mother had sacrificed a comfortable retirement...
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positions (2007) 15 (1): 91–111.
Published: 01 February 2007
...: the distance between Bei Dao and Mang Ke is no less important than that between Chen Dongdong and Xiao Kaiyu.   9 Insularity also resonates in a recent annotation: “An island is a kind of silence in a noisy...
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 539–567.
Published: 01 August 2008
... as a central site for the constitution and mediation of what were called in the historicopolitical and sociological realms “social problems” (shehui wenti).8 It is in this sense that in the 1920s — an era for journalism that Shang- hai historian Ma...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 129–154.
Published: 01 February 2016
... as well as rigorous middle-­class child-­rearing standards. Sharon Hays has argued that first-­world parenting has become increasingly “child-­centered, expert-­guided, emotionally absorbing, labor-­intensive, and financially expensive.”50...
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positions (2007) 15 (1): 35–63.
Published: 01 February 2007
... Kong: Mirror Books, 1998). Li Fan uses this term to denote the emergence and development of civil society in post-Mao China. 4 Xiao Qiang, “The Rising Tide of Internet Opinion in China,” Nieman Reports, Summer...
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 569–599.
Published: 01 August 2008
... seemed at the time just random thoughts. Terry Woronov was a bril- liant, attentive, and patient reader of several versions of this article. Madeleine Zelin, Carol Gluck, Eugenia Lean, David Wang, Michael Tsin, Jeff Wasserstrom, Hai Ren, Ian Miller, positions 16:3...