The Naming of a Crow (English/Chinese) (Words and the World) - Softcover

Yu Jian (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9629965313 ISBN 13: 9789629965310

Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2012

Synopsis

Following the convening of Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, Words & the World was a collection of selected works by some of the most internationally acclaimed poets today. The poem of The Naming of a Crow by Yu Jian is taken from this collection, and represents the finest contemporary poetry in trilingual or bilingual presentation.

About this title

About the Author

Yu Jian was born in 1954 in the city of Kunming, south-west China. He graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, University of Yunnan. His most important works include the poetry collections 60 Poems (1989), Note Anthology (2001) and Anthology and Image (2003); two books of prose, Notes on Brown Paper (1995) and Notes from the Human World (1997); and the five-volume selected poetry and prose entitled The Yu Jian Collection (2004). His documentary films include The Locomotive from 1910, Slow and The Blue Train Station. He has also written three plays, In Connection with AIDS, About an Evening Conversation and About a Discussion on the Far Shore of the Nature of Chinese Words.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9629965313
• ISBN 13: 9789629965310
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 45