Tuesday, June 19, 2007

News at Eleven: "There are over 40,000 severed fingers

in the Pearl River Delta. I often think: How long will the fingers extend if they were connected one by one? But my poor words cannot restore any of the fingers . . ."

In nonstandard Mandarin, a Dongguan migrant worker Zheng Xiaoqiong made a speech when she received one of the nation's most prestigious literary awards in Beijing on May 21, 2007.

from Shenzhen Daily: Zheng Xiaoqiong: Between a poet and a migrant worker

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