{"id":2875,"date":"2014-11-12T09:30:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T01:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2875"},"modified":"2014-11-10T23:00:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T15:00:13","slug":"i-speak-of-blood-the-poetry-of-foxconn-worker-xu-lizhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2875","title":{"rendered":"I Speak of Blood: The poetry of Foxconn worker Xu Lizhi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The China Labour Bulletin<\/em><\/a> has posted my translations of some poems of Xu Lizhi \u8bb8\u7acb\u5fd7, a twenty-four year-old worker at Foxconn who committed suicide on September 30, 2014. As CLB <\/em>reports, “In his brief two-year tenure as a production line worker at Foxconn, Xu published more than 30 articles in the in-house magazine Foxconn People.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Here’s a sample of his work in my translation:<\/p>\n

I speak of blood, because I can\u2019t help it
\nI\u2019d love to talk about flowers in the breeze and the moon in the snow
\nI\u2019d love to talk about imperial history, about poems in wine
\nBut this reality only lets me speak of blood<\/p>\n

\u6211\u8c08\u5230\u8840\uff0c\u4e5f\u662f\u51fa\u4e8e\u65e0\u5948<\/em>
\n\u6211\u4e5f\u60f3\u8c08\u8c08\u98ce\u82b1\u96ea\u6708<\/em>
\n\u8c08\u8c08\u524d\u671d\u7684\u5386\u53f2\uff0c\u9152\u4e2d\u7684\u8bd7\u8bcd<\/em>
\n\u53ef\u73b0\u5b9e\u8ba9\u6211\u53ea\u80fd\u8c08\u5230\u8840<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The blogger \u9b27 has also posted translations of a different suite of Xu’s poems at libcom<\/a>, and Martin <\/a>Winter <\/a>has his own versions in English and in German.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The China Labour Bulletin has posted my translations of some poems of Xu Lizhi \u8bb8\u7acb\u5fd7, a twenty-four year-old worker at Foxconn who committed suicide on September 30, 2014. 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