Xu Lizhi's poems have a clear theme. On the one hand, there is the life on the mechanical, monotonous, repetitive and high-intensity industrial assembly line, and on the other hand, there is the deep-seated pain, suffering, loneliness and silent outcry.
Xu Lizhi was born on June 7, 1990, in Jieyang, Guangdong Province. After graduating from high school, he worked in places such as Guangzhou and Jieyang. In early 2011, he came to Shenzhen and joined Foxconn as an assembly line worker. Later, he was transferred to a logistics position. After his contract expired in early 2014, he went to Jiangsu to look for a job. Soon, he returned to Shenzhen. On September 26, 2014, he signed another three-year labor contract with Foxconn. On September 30, he passed away after falling from a building. His poetic career began around 2010, and a small number of his works were published. His poems are simple, decisive, and intense, combining critical thinking and lyricism. He often uses absurd or shocking strokes to write about the sorrowful lives at the bottom of society and the poetry of death.
Zheng Xiaoqiong's poetry is renowned for its profound sense of pain. This pain is not merely physical torture but also spiritual humiliation and damage. Her poems document the violence, hardships, and pain endured by the low - end migrant workers in an industrialized society.
Despite the hardships in life, as the line "Someone is living by relying on it" in the poem suggests, Zheng Xiaoqiong's poem demonstrates the tenacious survival will of migrant workers in the face of adversity. They still strive to hold on and live tenaciously amidst the difficult life.
没想到是以这样的方式见老板。名人俱乐部，小舞厅，被咨客小姐引导着，穿过长长的曲里拐弯的，灯光在脚下幽微闪烁的甬道，然后推开门，里面也是黑的，只听见管风琴如泣如诉，萨克斯嘶哑破碎，特怀旧特忧伤的那种曲调。穿黑晚装吊大耳环的老板拍着手，啊呀常先生到了！快快，先请我跳一曲！
Mr. Cao Zhenglu wields his powerful pen, comprehensively and three-dimensionally depicting the panoramic development of Shenzhen over the past 30 years since the reform and opening up. His writing style is vigorous and magnificent. The full text is nearly 300,000 words, and it can be regarded as a very excellent work of migrant workers' literature. The article starts with Ma Mingyang, the manager of the Human Resources Department of Baodao Electronics Factory, going to the remote mountainous areas in Guizhou to recruit workers. Five girls, including Liu Yeye, Taohua, Maomei, Xiaoqing, etc., in order to get out of the mountains, promise and walk dozens of miles on mountain roads to actively offer themselves to Ma Mingyang for him to take their virginity as the starting point. The story unfolds and radiates with Xingfu Village in Shenzhen as the main axis.
矿工、厂妹、外卖骑手，他们用血和泪，写出了你不知道的中国
伴随着改革开放的春风，大批怀着梦想的年轻人从全国各地蜂拥至珠三角，反映打工者生活和思想的“打工文学”在广东应运而生。30多年来，许多业余写作的打工者，用文字感时抒怀，借书写的力量改变命运。
《问苍茫》生动再现了21世初特区波澜状阔的历史画卷，说它是21世纪初中国各阶级的史诗一点也不为过。
周崇贤，佛山市艺术创作院艺术策划部主任。在《作品》《四川文学》《长江文艺》《人民文学》等报刊上发表文学作品1000多万字。已出版文学及学术著作30多部。曾获广东省第九届新人新作奖等省市奖数十项。系第七届广东省十佳青年。
东莞是制造业名城，无数工厂耸立其间。2020年、2021年，作家塞壬通过应聘进入工厂，先后去了多家工厂工作。她将亲眼所见、亲身所感诉诸于笔端，记录下流水线上工人们的日常工作与生活。