City Gate, Open Up

Bei Dao

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City Gate, Open Up

Bei Dao
LiteratureNDP1371First published 2017

In 2001, to visit his sick father, China’s legendary poet Bei Dao returned to his homeland for the first time in over eleven years. The city of his birth, however, had totally changed. “Everything was difficult to recognize, nothing familiar,” he writes: “...

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City Gate, Open Up

Bei Dao

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