Yu Jian: Selected Poems ISBN 978-988-237-177-4

ISBN 978-988-237-177-4

This is the story of a Chinese woman confronting her past

xii + 252 pages

The second half of the Nineteenth Century saw the emergence of a new consciousness in Chinese society

Yu Jian: Selected Poems ISBN 978-988-237-177-4By Yu JianTranslated by Simon Patton and Naikan Tao2018136 pagesISBN 978 962 7255 46 8 Born in Yunnan province in 1954, Yu Jian has developed a unique poetic voice that has little to do with the cultural centres of Beijing and Shanghai. In 1971, during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (19661976), he came across a booklet of classical Chinese poetry hidden away in a remote village temple. This chance discovery ripped the blindfold from his