For more than two decades, working-class queer Chinese Mu Cao 墓草 (b.1974, Henan, China) has been a unique voice in Chinese literature and global queer literature. Often referred to as a ‘folk poet’ and ‘a voice from the bottom of Chinese society’, his poems celebrate queer desire and migrant worker experience. A high school drop-out, … Continue reading Mu Cao: Dark Chronicler of China’s Working-Class Queer Life – Hongwei Bao