A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China's most acclaimed poets--now available in English for the first time in a generation and featuring a foreword by his son,&nbsp;contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei One of the most influential poets in Chinese history, Ai Qing is mostly unknown to American 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 Qing was at one time an intimate of Mao Zedong. He would eventually fall out with the leader and be sentenced to hard labor during the Cultural Revolution, when he was exiled to the remote part of the country known as "Little Siberia" with his family, including his son, Ai Weiwei. &nbsp; In his work, Ai Qing tells the story of a China convulsing with change, leaving behind a legacy of feudalism and imperialism but uncertain about what the future will hold. Breaking with traditional forms of Chinese poetry, Ai Qing innovatively adapted free verse, writing with a simple sincerity in clear lines that could be understood by everyday readers. Selected Poems is an extraordinary collection that traces the powerful inner life of this influential poet who crafted poems of protest, who longed for a newer, happier age, and who wrote with a profound lyricism that reaches deep into the heart of the reader.

Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

AI QING

Genre Fiction

Crown

Twenty-nine poems by Ai Qing are featured in this book, including Transparent Night, DayanheMy Wet-Nurse, The Sun, Coals Reply, A Smile, The Land Reborn, Snow Falls on Chinas Land, Wheelbarrow, The North, The Woman Mending Clothes, Facing the Sun, I Love This Land, Beggar, Winter Pond, Trees, Lament for Paris, Highway, Boy Reaping, A Poem Dedicated to a Village, Wild Fire, The Announcement of the Dawn, Reef, Venus, the Morning Star, Presented to Ulanova, Hope, Fish Fossil, To the Soul of Danuska, My Friend, Wall, and A Toast.

Ai Qing Selected Poems (English and Chinese Edition)

Foreign Languages Press

Language:Chinese.HardCover.Pub Date:2019-01-01.publisher:Democracy and Construction Press.description:Hardcover. Pub Date: 314 Language: Chinese Publisher: Democratic and Construction Press Ai Qing Poetry The poetry of the poet's representative poetry in different years. the poet is in life. Learn the source of creation. convey the message of brigh...

Ai Qing poetry(Chinese Edition)

Democracy and Construction Press

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Popular Literature Publishing House

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