Xiaoqiong, Zheng

Zheng Xiaoqiong (c) gezett

Zheng Xiaoqiong, born in 1980, is a Chinese poetess. She worked as a migrant labourer in a metal goods factory in Dongguan in Guangdong province and had published a few poems. In 2007, she won the prestigious Liqun Literature Price. Her first volume of poetry “女工记” [The Book of Women Workers], was published in 2012, in which she portrays female migrant workers based on her own experiences and numerous interviews. Since then, five more volumes have been published and her texts have been translated into German, English, French, Japanese and Turkish. Zheng Xiaoqiong is also a regular guest at international literature festivals. Her poetry conveys the reality of everyday life in factories as well as the effects of global capitalism on nature.

Festival Content

WRITING CLASS

You can´t poet this

Kuppelhalle | 9/7 € Tickets

Writing Class addresses classism, which over the last decade has been debated in the German-language literary discourse, especially in relation to various forms of autobiographical essays. For the first time, we are bringing a number of poetic positions on this debate, which has also been held in international poetry for years, to the big stage. Four poets have been invited who approach this topic in very different manners:

Dianišková, Veronika • Lock, Fran • Petrović, Radmila • Xiaoqiong, Zheng