City Gate, Open Up by Bei Dao, translated by Jeffrey Yang [in Booklist]
04 Apr, by in Adult Readers, Chinese, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Translation
Bei Dao is considered the most prominent of China’s “Misty Poets,” named for the abstract, opaque nature of their compositions written predominantly during the oppressive Cultural Revolution. In contrast, the language of Bei Dao’s memoir, seamlessly translated by fellow poet Yang, is elegantly simple and...