How to Create a New Workers’ Culture Together: An Interview with Wang Dezhi

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Research Article| May 01 2023 How to Create a New Workers’ Culture Together: An Interview with Wang Dezhi Wang Dezhi ; Wang Dezhi Wang Dezhi is one of the founders of Migrant Workers Home in Picun, Beijing. After leaving his hometown in Inner Mongolia in 1995, Wang took up many different jobs, and in 2002 he cofounded the New Workers Art Troupe, creating and performing in cross-talk shows. He has studied labor law and has provided legal aid and organized workshops for migrant workers. In 2012 he launched the “Migrant Workers New Year Gala,” a New Year celebration program created and performed entirely by migrant workers. Wang also set up the “New Workers Documentary Group” and has directed several documentaries and short films. Currently he is managing the secondhand nonprofit stores of the Migrant Workers Home, through which he hopes to continue to support the activities of the organization. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Chun Chun Ting; Chun Chun Ting Editor Chun Chun Ting is assistant professor at the School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She teaches Chinese literature and cinema; activism and art; and youth and urban cultures. Ting is currently working on a manuscript on spatial politics and social movements in postcolonial Hong Kong. She also writes on Hong Kong literature and culture; Sinophone documentaries and films; and migrant workers’ literary production in contemporary China. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Max Bohnenkamp Max Bohnenkamp translated from Mandarin by Max Bohnenkamp is an independent scholar of modern Chinese literature and culture and a freelance translator specializing in Chinese scholarly writings in the humanities and social sciences. He holds a PhD in Chinese literature from the University of Chicago and has research interests in conceptions of popular and mass cultures in China, the adaptation of Chinese folklore for modern and contemporary literature and performing arts, the reception of Western and Soviet literary and dramatic aesthetics in China, and the relationship of creative expression to politics and critical social theory. He is currently completing a book-length study of the cultural, literary, and political origins of the famous Chinese revolutionary musical drama The White-Haired Girl. His most recent translated work is a collection of essays by Chinese scholars of religion, entitled Beyond Indigenization: Christianity and Chinese History in a Global Context (2023). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2023) 31 (2): 507–521. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-10300334 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Dezhi Wang, Chun Chun Ting, Max Bohnenkamp; How to Create a New Workers’ Culture Together: An Interview with Wang Dezhi. positions 1 May 2023; 31 (2): 507–521. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-10300334 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll Journalspositions Search Advanced Search You do not currently have access to this content.