China’s poet of precarity
Scribbled on stray scraps of paper during the work day, Wang Jibing’s poems carry the relentless soundtrack of the gig economy — of labyrinthine lanes, noisy traffic junctions, irate phone calls, but also the constant hum of chronic uncertainty. That the collection, Low Flight, has won the 56-year-old Chinese food delivery agent the Lu Xun Literary Prize, China’s premier literary award, is a heartening affirmation of........
