The Names of Nongmingong 2022
Abstract
The first generation of Nongmingong is exiting the stage of China with the abolishment of the Hukou System in 2014. This piece of writing attempts to trace the names of Nongmingong, to understand the formation of their discriminative uses and derogatory user context. By inviting and weaving the voices of migrant workers in the forms of their poetry in factual and theoretical literature, I hope to bring to light their life stories as individuals and the history they craft collectively. Writing “with” them is to place these quiet but vivid lives in the light and put together a piece of history that belongs to them.