{"id":2976,"date":"2015-02-04T09:30:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T01:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2015-01-25T22:35:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T14:35:23","slug":"xu-lizhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2976","title":{"rendered":"Xu Lizhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clb.org.hk\/en\/content\/new-day-remembering-shenzhen%E2%80%99s-worker-poet-xu-lizhi\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.clb.org.hk\/en\/sites\/default\/files\/Image\/general\/xu%20lizhi%201.jpg?resize=280%2C193\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"193\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><em>China Labour Bulletin<\/em> <\/a>reports on a forthcoming collection of poems by Xu Lizhi \u8bb8\u7acb\u5fd7, the migrant laborer who committed suicide on September 30, 2014:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A New Day<\/em> is now the title of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zhongchou.cn\/deal-show\/id-37669\">forthcoming anthology<\/a> of Xu\u2019s work that contains nearly 200 poems dating back to 2010. Most of the poems were written while Xu was employed as a production line worker at Foxconn\u2019s massive Longhua factory complex in Shenzhen.<\/p>\n<p>The poetry critic Qin Xiaoyu who edits the new anthology describes Xu as both the voice and the chronicler of China\u2019s millions of dispossessed migrant workers. Xu\u2019s poetry, he said, was \u201csimple yet powerful, both lyrical and critical, often using absurd or shocking images to reveal the tragedy of life on the lowest rungs of society.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"wpview-selection-before\"><span class=\"author vcard fn\">Additionally, <a href=\"http:\/\/newbooksinpoetry.com\/2014\/12\/14\/rountable-on-the-poetry-of-xu-lizhi\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New Books in Poetry<\/em> <\/a>has run a roundtable on Xu&#8217;s life and work with Jen Fitzgerald<\/span>, Mark Nowak, Shengqing Wu, and Rodrigo Toscano. Listen at the page, or here:<\/p>\n<p class=\"audioplayer_container\"><span style=\"display:block;padding:5px;border:1px solid #dddddd;background:#f8f8f8\" id=\"audioplayer_1\">Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&amp;promoid=BIOW\" title=\"Download Adobe Flash Player\">here<\/a>. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.<\/span><\/p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">AudioPlayer.embed(\"audioplayer_1\", {soundFile:\"aHR0cHM6Ly94aWNodWFucG9ldHJ5LmNvbS9hdWRpby8\"});<\/script>\n<p><em>New Books in Poetry <\/em>links to many other sites featuring or discussing Xu&#8217;s work in English, but they did not link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clb.org.hk\/en\/content\/i-speak-blood-poetry-foxconn-worker-xu-lizhi\" target=\"_blank\">my translations<\/a>, which <em>China Labour Bulletin<\/em> published in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Labour Bulletin reports on a forthcoming collection of poems by Xu Lizhi \u8bb8\u7acb\u5fd7, the migrant laborer who committed suicide on September 30, 2014: A New Day is now the title of a forthcoming anthology of Xu\u2019s work that contains &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2976\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1515,1512,165,1514,1513,1485],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-M0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3724,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3724","url_meta":{"origin":2976,"position":0},"title":"Matt Turner on Qin &#038; Goodman&#8217;s Iron Moon Anthology","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"May 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"In a piece titled \"A Poem of Shame: In the Words of China\u2019s Workers\" published at Hyperallergic, Matt Turner gives his take on Iron Moon: An Anthology of Chinese Worker Poetry, edited by Qin Xiaoyu\u00a0\u79e6\u6653\u5b87 and translated by Eleanor Goodman. 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