Poetry. Asian-American Studies. Cultural Writing. Yang Lian stands with Bei Dao as one of the major living Chinese exiled poets. In this important new work Yang takes the Book of Changes as his inner structure, which he rearranges and pulls apart to emphasize the significance of this ancient classic Chinese system for symbolizing nature. Believing that several centuries of interpretations have divorced it from its original intent, Yang Lian attempts in this work to represent man as the perceiver rather than the subject of nature. Translated from the Chinese by Mabel Lee, the noted translator of Soul Mountain by Nobel prize-winning author Gao Xingjian. A bilingual edition.
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