Feng37 told me the other day that he was planing to translate the poems of Zheng Xiaoqiong(郑小琼),a grass-rooted poet who is better known as migrant workers in Dongguan(东莞 known as a hub of world manufacturing sector),.Feng37 quoted a few lines written by Zheng,that is- there are over forty thousands cut fingers of migrant workers in Pearl River Delta,it occur to me from time to time,how long it would be when put together and lined up?I regret that my powerless words can't not even fix one of them- "珠江三角洲有4万根以上断指,我常想,如果把它们都摆成一条直线会有多长 ,而我笔下瘦弱的文字却不能将任何一根断指接起来……" I came across the statistics of migrant worker's cut figures occasionally but read it from some advocates' reporting or writing ,calling for an independent workers union.I failed to comprehensive the strong feeling shared by Zheng who works at the assembling line all day long.I even felt sorry it was Feng37 as "an outside" that remind me of that emotional lines.Please forgive me, fe...
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