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Zheng Xiaoqiong

Zheng Xiaoqiong

Zheng Xiaoqiong (b. 1980, Nanchong) worked for six months in a rural hospital after graduating from nursing school, and then moved to Dongguan to work in a die-mould factory. She soon moved to a toy factory and a magnetic tape factory, before becoming a warehouse manager. She then worked as a hole-punch operator in a hardware factory for five years. Her poetry collections include Huangma Mountains, Collected Poems of Zheng Xiaoqiong, Pedestrian Bridge, and Poems Falling on Machines.

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In the Roar of the Machine

Zheng Xiaoqiong

112 pages
Paperback, 21 x 14.8 cm
Published July 2022
ISBN 9781922725288

A collection of some of the most influential poems of Zheng Xiaoqiong, who spent nearly a decade working in the factories and warehouses of southern China, and who speaks to a community which consumes the products of this labour.