Open Up, City Gate
In 2001, to visit his sick father, the exiled poet Bei Dao returned to his homeland for the first time in over twenty years. The city of his birth was totally unrecognizable. My city that once was had vanished, he writes: I was a foreigner in my hometown. The shock of this experience released a flood of memories and emotions that sparked Open Up, City Gate. In this lyrical autobiography of growing up-from the birth of the People's Republic, through the chaotic years of the Great Leap Forward, and on into the Cultural Revolution-Bei Dao uses his extraordinary gifts as a poet and storyteller to create another Beijing, a beautiful memory palace…
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Weitere Autoren: Yang, Jeffrey (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2643-1
- EAN: 9780811226431
- Produktnummer: 20087059
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H20.4 cm x B13.4 cm x D2.4 cm 336 g
- Gewicht: 336
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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