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Jeffrey Yang

Jeffrey Yang is the author of An Aquarium (2008) and Vanishing-Line (2011) and the translator of Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies (2012), all published by Graywolf Press. He is also the editor of the anthologies Birds, Beasts, and Seas: Nature Poems (2011) and Time of Grief: Mourning Poems (2013). He works as an editor for New Directions.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 108

Essays & Memoir | Issue 108

Once Upon a Time the Zhou Brothers

Bei Dao

‘When I first came to America in the autumn of 1988, I met the Zhou brothers in Chicago.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 108

Essays & Memoir | Issue 108

Wrestling with Translation

Jeffrey Yang

‘As I embarked on my adventure I immediately started to feel that old hatred for simplified Chinese characters.’