BOOK TALK: Adrift in the South by Xiao Hai
Housmans, 5 Caledonian Road King’s Cross, N1 9DXWhen Xiao Hai turned fifteen, his family paid a vocational-school teacher 1,200 yuan to find him a factory job in Shenzhen. So began fifteen years spent moving between the garment mills and electronics factories of China’s fast-growing southern cities.Adrift in the South is a memoir of life as a migrant labourer in the twenty-first century, […]








