by Bei Dao, translated from the Chinese by Eliot Weinberger JUNE Wind at the ear says June June a blacklist I slipped in time note this way to say goodbyeContinue readingTwo Poems

by Duo Duo, translated from the Chinese by Lucas Klein AMSTERDAM’S RIVER in the November nightfall city there is only Amsterdam’s river suddenly the tangerines on my tree at homeContinue readingTwo Poems

by Liu Xiaobo, translated from the Chinese by Ming Di TO MY GRANDFATHER —after Liu Xia, and on behalf of Xia who has never seen her grandfather Epigraph: Dear Xia,Continue readingTo My Grandfather

by Xi Chuan, translated from the Chinese by Lucas Klein BEAST The beast, I see it. The beast, fur thick and stiff, teeth sharp, eyes nearly lifeless. The beast, gaspingContinue readingBeast

by Yang Lian, translated from the Chinese by Brian Holton REALITY ELEGY part of Narrative Poem [Download] 现实哀歌 选自《叙事诗》 [Download]   Yang Lian 楊煉(author) was one of the original MistyContinue readingReality Elegy

by Xi Xi, translated from the Chinese by Jennifer Feeley JUNE On the wall hung an abstract painting flanked by huge bookcases How nice it was to sit together justContinue readingJune

by Meng Lang, translated from the Chinese by Anne Henochowicz TO CHINA, TO THE BYSTANDERS —Notice of Death, 13 July 13 2017
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by Lin Zhao, translated from the Chinese by Chris Song the dusk grows yellow on the grey blue sea a ship is sailing through breakers carrying chained-up prisoners towards anContinue readingSong Of The Seagull (An Excerpt)

by Liu Waitong, translated from the Chinese by Lucas Klein TOMORROW THERE WILL BE MORE DEATHS TO KILL THE DEATHS OF TODAY 1 After we died they missed ten thousandContinue readingTomorrow There Will Be More Deaths to Kill the Deaths of Today

by Chan Lai-kuen, translated from the Chinese by Jennifer Feeley WE SCATTER THE EARTH We are every stone strewn on the ground we are walls, are windows we are ironContinue readingWe Scatter the Earth

by Ng Mei Kwan, translated from the Chinese by the author HEARTBEAT OF THE SQUARE When the Square’s heart beats There seems to be a child in a mother’s embraceContinue readingHeartbeat of the Square

by Yibing Huang, translated from the Chinese by the author TRUTH Land dry and dusty, houses low as boundary tablets Roads twisted just as marked on the map Rooster losesContinue readingTwo Poems

by Ming Di, translated from the Chinese by the author In the Square of Heavenly Peace after Ezra Pound The aspirations of these young faces in the crowd— plums crushedContinue readingIn the Square of Heavenly Peace

by Anthony Tao  I. The day was clear as wish, fresh as vision, beckoning with the assurance of new history. That’s how I remember it, anyway, even if memory hasContinue reading6/4

by Aiden Heung I went out to the balcony for the stars; in the depth of the winter neons of a belated new year flickered at the street corner, likeContinue reading3 AM

by Kate Rogers I: January 1999 “There will be,” said my new boss, “a Party plant in your classroom. Tiananmen never happened.” I was sitting in her office at CentennialContinue readingTwenty Years in the People’s Republic of China

by Ken Chau by numbers Military (of a drill procedure, etc.) performed step by step, each move being made on the call of a number 1. 100 flowers did not bloom onContinue readingThe Avenue of Eternal Peace by Numbers No. 2

by Ilaria Maria Sala April came and brought sneezes Do you remember? The large avenue was lined with poplars April came and surprised us The marches started in the night We lookedContinue readingIn June

by Ian Heffernan I hadn’t realised until I bought That day’s South China Morning Post and saw The headlines, then it hit: the fourth of June, And twenty-five years on a dateContinue readingFourth of June

by Reid Mitchell Yancheng, 4 June 2019 Today I go out, dressed all in white and wonder if anybody gets the message a laowai in white, an uninvited mourner inContinue readingLaowai Wearing White

by Lorenzo Andolfatto Fashion cycles brought the Eighties back And dress the Chinese exchange Students like Tiananmen intellectuals Perched in exile, escaped From the caterpillary tanks Patrolling Chang’an Avenue UnderContinue readingTranscultural Studies

by Joseph T. Salazar Maybe it is the thousands of teach-ins that have led us to construe our respective revolutions as this stupor of mass shattering mass: bone and fleshContinue readingIn Tiananmen