The online essay chronicling the dismal plight of millions of Chinese has turned its unassuming author into an overnight literary sensation
As a girl, 范雨素 (Fàn Yǔsù) looked to Charles Dickens for an escape from her life of rural poverty, immersing herself in the travails of Oliver Twist as he fled a Victorian workhouse and set off for the big smoke. But it is the story of 范 (Fàn)’s own flight to the big city that has captured hearts and minds in her native China after an online account of the migrant worker’s struggles made her an overnight literary sensation. [Read more]. |
- Tom Phillips, “I am 范雨素 (Fàn Yǔsù)”: China gripped by Dickensian tale of a migrant worker’s struggle, The Guardian, May 3, 2017
Migrant workers at 上海火车站 (Shànghǎi Railway Station). An account of their struggles by budding writer 范雨素 (Fàn Yǔsù) has gone viral but she has “no idea” why. Photo: 阿里宋 (Ālǐ Sòng)/Reuters.
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