Poetry That Delivers
Wang Jibing, China’s “delivery driver poet,” talks to TWOC about getting inspired on the road and not letting online trolls get the better of him
Out of the Cloud Chamber: How to Help Chinese Poetry Go West?
Meet the new wave of scholars and translators making the untranslatable relatable
The Desert City Remembered for a Tragic Poet
Delingha in Qinghai was made famous by revered poet Haizi, now the city is trying to use that fame to boost tourism
Poet Shangyang Fang on Avoiding Tokenizing When Writing in English
“I refuse to conform to this stupidity”: Up-and-coming poet Shangyang Fang talks to TWOC about musicality in verse and not conforming to tropes
The Simple Lines and Grand Designs of Shangyang Fang’s Poetry
Shangyang Fang’s acclaimed debut poetry collection meditates on desire and despair with quotes from Tang poets and techniques from Western classical music
Goodbye, Beijing
In “City Gate, Open Up”, seminal poet Bei Dao memorializes a long-lost capital
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