The changing room
Subtitle: selected poetry of Zhai Yongming = Geng yi shi
By: Zhai Yongming ; translated from Chinese by Andrea Lingenfelter
Contributors: Lingenfelter, Andrea, translator
Series: Jintian series of contemporary literature; Jintian series of contemporary literature
Publisher: Chinese University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: S.l.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9789629969295; 9789629964900
Subjects: Chinese poetry; Translations into English
Work titles: Poems
Description: The author of six volumes of poetry, Yongming Zhai first became prominent in the mid-1980s with the publication of her twenty-poem cycle, Woman, a work that forcefully articulated a female point-of-view in China's largely patriarchal society. Her powerful imagery and forthright voice resonated with many readers. Zhai has continued to hone her critique of traditional attitudes toward women, quickly becoming one of China's foremost feminist voices and a major force in the contemporary literary scene. She is also an installation artist and prolific essayist, and stages poetry readings and other cultural events at the bar she owns in her native Chengdu.
Notes: Preliminaries in English, poems in Chinese and English on facing pages.