Selected Poems, 9781784877668
Hardcover
China’s poet of protest: timeless verses, now in English.

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  • Hardcover

    128 pages

  • Release Date

    14 February 2022

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Summary

Ai Qing: Echoes of a Changing China - Selected Poems

With a foreword by Ai Weiwei.

A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China’s most acclaimed poets - now available in English.

One of the most influential poets in Chinese history, Ai Qing is mostly unknown to Western readers, but his work has shaped the nature of poetry in China for decades. Born between the fall of imperial Manchurian rule and the establishment of the Communist People’s Republic, Ai…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781784877668
ISBN-10:1784877662
Author:Ai Qing, Robert Dorsett, Ai Weiwei
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage Classics
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:128
Release Date:14 February 2022
Weight:240g
Dimensions:218mm x 142mm x 20mm
About The Author

Ai Qing

Ai Qing is regarded as one of the finest modern Chinese poets, whose free verse was influential in the development of new poetry in China.

Robert Dorsett, translator, studied Chinese at the Yale-in-China Program at the Chinese University in Hong Kong. He received an M.D. from the State University of New York. He translated Wen Yiduo’s Stagnant Water & Other Poems and the memoirs of Gao Ertai, In Search of my Homeland- A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp with David Pollard. Robert Dorsett has also published his own poetry in The Literary Review, The Kenyon Review, Northwest Review, Poetry, and elsewhere.

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