{"product_id":"adrift-in-the-south-9781738536269","title":"Adrift in the South","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Xiao Hai | Tony Hao\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Granta Magazine Editions\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Granta Magazine Editions\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Personal Memoirs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen Xiao Hai turned fifteen, his family paid a vocational-school teacher 1,200 yuan to find him a factory job in Shenzhen. So began a decade spent moving between the garment mills and electronics factories of China's fast-growing southern cities.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdrift in the South\u003c\/i\u003e is a first-hand account of a life spent dodging corrupt officials and abusive employers, working long hours in brutal conditions and sleeping in overcrowded dormitories. Xiao Hai gives voice to a generation of migrant workers searching for survival, meaning and dignity in a country undergoing dramatic economic and political transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA landmark work from China's migrant worker literature movement, this memoir offers a rare perspective on the human cost of the country's economic rise.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Granta Magazine Editions","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47772944400535,"sku":"9781738536269","price":1139.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781738536269.webp?v=1777976796","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/adrift-in-the-south-9781738536269","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}