Hsiao-Hung Pai — Author (5)

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Angry White People
Angry White People - Coming face-to-face with the British far right Douban
Hsiao-Hung Pai publishing house: Zed Books 2016 - 3
'They've taken over our culture and our way of life.' 'Britain for whites only.' 'Islam is Britain's biggest problem.' These are not strange words in Britain today, nor are the irate faces of far-right street mobs strangers to our screens. In this fantastically daring book, Hsiao-Hung Pai, an 'inscrutable foreigner', follows a group of individuals who got caught up in the wave of far-right street movements that began in 2009. Among them are Darren, who took part in the formation of the English Defence League but who left it after two years of activism; a Reading-based activist nicknamed Viking, who once occupied Derby cathedral in order to assert his right to carry a sword; and the infamous Tommy Robinson, founder of the EDL, whom Pai saw change from a young, foul-mouthed Luton kid to a well-received, suited-and-booted Oxford Union guest speaker. Delving deep into the day-to-day of the most marginalized section of the white working class, Pai uncovers that their ideas are not an aberration in modern British society; on the contrary, not only are they very much a part of it but they are constantly rejuvenated and mainstreamed by the media and powers that be.

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Scattered Sand
Douban
Hsiao-Hung Pai publishing house: Verso 2012 - 8
Each year, 200 million workers from China's vast rural interior travel between cities and regions in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labor contributes half of China's GDP, but is an unorganized workforce - 'scattered sand' - and the most marginalized and impoverished group of workers in the country. For two years, the award-winning journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai traveled across China to uncover the exploitation of workers at locations as diverse as Olympic construction sites and brick kilns in the Yellow River region, the factories of the Pearl River Delta and the suicide-ridden Foxconn complex. She witnessed AIDS-afflicted families and towns; recorded acts of labor militancy; and was reunited with long-lost relatives, estranged since her mother's family fled for Taiwan during the Civil War. What she finds is a peasantry expected to sacrifice itself for the sake of national glory - just as it was under Mao.

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Invisible
Douban
Hsiao-Hung Pai publishing house: The Westbourne Press 2013 - 11
台湾裔英国卧底女记者白晓红第三本英文书。 Ming and Beata share neither the same language nor cultural background, yet their stories are remarkably similar. Both are single mothers in their thirties and both came to Britain in search of a new life: Ming from China and Beata from Poland. Neither imagined that their journey would end in a British brothel. In this chilling expose, investigative journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai works undercover as a housekeeper in a brothel and unveils the terrible reality of the British sex trade. Workers are trapped and controlled - the lack of freedoms this invisible strait of society suffers is both shocking and scandalous and at odds with the idea of a modern Britain in the twenty-first century.