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dc.identifier	ECF_article_12110
dc.title	Poetry and Labour(s): Chinese Workers’ Poetry from the Cultural Revolution to the Twenty-First Century
dc.contributor.author	Garbelli Matteo
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-orientale/2023/1/poetry-and-labours-chinese-workers-poetry-from-the/
dc.description.abstract	This paper looks at two different manifestations of workers’ poetry as a literary tradition: the poetry of workers, peasants and soldiers (gongnongbing 工农兵) and migrant workers’ poetry (dagong shige 打工诗歌) Through a comparison between three issues of Shikan 诗刊 (Poetry Monthly) from 1976 and an anthology of migrant worker’s poetry published in 2007, this study explores some of the most relevant differences between the two in terms of aesthetics and content, before addressing questions about the shifts in the positioning of workers’ poetry vis-à-vis the political and literary authority in China.
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 59 \| June 2023
dc.issued	2023-08-29
dc.dateAccepted	2023-05-09
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-01-31
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2385-3042
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2023/01/014
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Contemporary Chinese literature
dc.subject	Labour
dc.subject	Migrant workers’ poetry
dc.subject	Sociology of literature
dc.subject	Workers’ poetry

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Poetry and Labour(s): Chinese Workers’ Poetry from the Cultural Revolution to the Twenty-First Century

Matteo Garbelli Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, Italia

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abstract

This paper looks at two different manifestations of workers’ poetry as a literary tradition: the poetry of workers, peasants and soldiers (gongnongbing 工农兵) and migrant workers’ poetry (dagong shige 打工诗歌) Through a comparison between three issues of Shikan 诗刊 (Poetry Monthly) from 1976 and an anthology of migrant worker’s poetry published in 2007, this study explores some of the most relevant differences between the two in terms of aesthetics and content, before addressing questions about the shifts in the positioning of workers’ poetry vis-à-vis the political and literary authority in China.

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Aug. 29, 2023

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May 9, 2023

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Jan. 31, 2023

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Keywords: Workers’ poetry • Contemporary Chinese literature • Labour • Sociology of literature • Migrant workers’ poetry

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