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Once Upon a Time the Zhou Brothers

Bei Dao

Translated by Jeffrey Yang

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

Bei Dao

Bei Dao is currently Professor of Humanities at the Chinese University in Hong Kong. He is the author of two collections of short stories and seven collections of poetry, including The Rose of Time: New and Selected Poems (2010).

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Translated by 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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