City Gate, Open Up by Bei Dao, Jeffrey Yang

City Gate, Open Up

Bei Dao, Jeffrey Yang

240 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history reflective slow-paced
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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 m...

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