{"product_id":"adrift-in-the-south","title":"Adrift in the South","description":"\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 A 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.","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Adrift in the South","offer_id":46272405766341,"sku":null,"price":33.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-7385362-6-9.jpg?v=1779596480","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/adrift-in-the-south","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}