Chen Nianxi ( Chinese: 陈年喜; born February 5, 1970) [1] is a Chinese poet from Shaanxi, whose poetic genre is "migrant worker literature". [2]
Chen was born in Danfeng County, Shaanxi. [1] Following high school graduation in 1987, [3] Chen got married and worked as a farmer, and had a son in 1999. [2] Alongside publishing poetry in local publications, [4] he worked as a miner for approximately 15 years across China, particularly in the Qinling mountain range. [5]
In 2011, along with the growth of microblogging in China, he was able to reach a broader audience. [2] This eventually attracted the attention of Qin Xiaoyu, a film critic and producer, who profiled Chen in his 2015 documentary The Verse of Us. [2]