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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464412103321

Autore

Wang Ping <1957->

Titolo

Ten thousand waves : poems / / Wang Ping

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Antonio, Texas : , : Wings Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-60940-353-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (114 p.)

Disciplina

811/.54

Soggetti

Chinese American women

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; I: Bargain; A Hakka Man Farms Rare Earth in South China; Dust Angels; Bargain; Young Monk at Debating Court; Winter Worm, Summer Plant; All Roads to Lhasa; Time to Go Down the Mountain; Solstice in Lhasa; Luosang's Dream; Paradise; She Shines Shoes at the Metal City of Yongkang; The Snail Catcher; Song of Twenty-Four Solar Terms; The Collector; The Newlyweds' Bedroom: A Migrant Story, Chongming, Shanghai; Plunged into the Sea; Wild Pheasant; II: The Price of a Finger; The Price of a Finger; The Last Son of China

In Search of Chinese PoetsThis Is Not Violence; III: Crossing the Line; This Is How You Cross the Line; WX Speaks from China Wok; Ten Thousand Waves; The Great Summons; My Name Is Suni; Notes; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Wang Ping's collection looks at a wide swathe of Chinese history and literature, and examines various issues stemming from immigration to America. She conveys the voices of centuries of farmers and factory laborers, revolutionaries, writers, artists and craftsmen. She has a unique gift for telling small stories with powerful emotional effects.           The title poem, ""Ten Thousand Waves,"" was inspired by a tragedy that occurred on February 5, 2004. More than twenty Chinese laborers were drowned in Morecambe Bay, England, when they were caught by an incoming tide. They were collecting cockl