Fragile Kingdom: Chinese Insect Poems - Softcover

Bai, Hong Ai; Digby, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 089304640X ISBN 13: 9780893046408

Publisher: Cross-Cultural Communications, 2018

Synopsis

Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. This book is a bilingual (Chinese-English) collection of classical Chinese poems about insects. Selected and translated by Hong Ai Bai & John Digby. Illustrated and edited by Joan Digby.

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About the Author

Hong Ai Bai, PhD in Linguistics, has been teaching at English and Foreign Language departments of Long Island University Post campus and the Communication Department of the University of Colorado Denver, International College Beijing. She has published a book, Deviation in Advertising Language: A Functional Analysis (2009), three English textbooks, and ten academic articles. As part of her interest in Chinese classical poetry, she and the English poet John Digby have published a series of translation on classic Chinese poems, A BREAK IN PASSING CLOUDS (2014), PASSING MEMORIES: A COLLECTION OF CHINESE POEMS ON COLD FOOD FESTIVAL (2016), CHINESE BIRD POEMS (2016), CHINESE EMPEROR POEMS (2017), CHINESE FLOWER POEMS (2017), FRAGILE KINGDOM: CHINESE INSECT POEMS (2018), and more. She has also been giving readings on Chinese poetry in various places, such as the Walt Whitman's Birthplace Museum, Hutton House Lectures of LIU Post, and the Long Beach Public Library. In addition, she has provided presentations at several international conferences on Chinese poetry translation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cross-Cultural Communications
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 089304640X
• ISBN 13: 9780893046408
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100