In Singing on the River, Igor Chabrowski explores life conditions and work-song traditions of Sichuan boatmen demonstrating how they constructed their mentality and social identity in the turbulent first half of the twentieth century.

Igor Iwo Chabrowski, Ph. D. (2013), European University Institute is a post-doctoral fellow on the Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society in the 20th Century at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He taught at the University of Oxford and the University of Warsaw.