The August Sleepwalker
First published in the US in 1990, the year after the uprising of Chinese students at Tiananmen Square, The August Sleepwalker collects all the early poetry of Bei Dao, China's premier poet, now living in exile. The August Sleepwalker is an extremely popular book (30,000 copies sold in China in one month) which was quickly banned by the Chinese government. The collection includes all of the poems Bei Dao published between 1970 and 1986. Bei Dao has lived in exile since the Tiananmen Incident. He is widely esteemed as one of contemporary China's most significant writers. His work is experimental, and subjective, while remaining passionately en…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-1132-1
- EAN: 9780811211321
- Produktnummer: 9031312
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 140 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.7 cm x D1.1 cm 163 g
- Gewicht: 163
Über den Autor
Bei Dao, born in Beijing in 1949, has traveled and lectured around the world. He has received numerous international awards for his poetry, and is an honorary member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Bei Dao, now a U.S. citizen, is currently Professor of Humanities in the Center for East Asian Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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