Wang Ping is a poet, writer, photographer, performance and multimedia artist. Her publications have been translated into multiple languages and include poetry, short stories, novels, cultural studies, and children's stories.

Looking at a wide swath of Chinese history and literature, Wang Ping conveys the voices of centuries of farmers and factory laborers, immigrants, revolutionaries, writers, artists, and craftsmen.

In poetic superstitions, Wang Ping makes her singular way with passion and vigor. She explodes the safe boundaries of culture, gender, and female sexuality. These meditations reveal the incongruities between Byzantine bureaucracy and the needs of a free spirit."

Ping : adultery, a couple living together without a marriage certificate. Lan : greedy. Xian : suspicion. Lan : lazy. Piao : go whoring. Ask a Chinese man why women are associated with disasters, he'll immediately give you a list of those who ruined the greatest emperors and brought down entire kingdoms: Daji,

Boy at Sea I met Boy as his interpreter. My colleague Jim was representing him for his asylum application. Boy didn’t speak English. Jim needed him to practice his answers before the judge.

174 wang ping. He said it was older than the first man,older than the giant dragons that terrorized the earth for hundreds of million of years,older than the green sturgeon in the Long River. You didn’t say a word.Without looking, I knew you were also

All Roads to Lhasa is intended to introduce visitors to the benefits and dangers of the Qinghai-Tibet Railroad, and to detail the stories of individuals affected by the project and of its environmental impacts.

LIU MANLIU Mayfly's Journal Poetry aches and freezes. Melancholy narrator below the waterline, foam's masterpiece, I turn my back on the memories,

Wang Yu, the hotel boy who took us to see his new home, pulled my sleeve and whispered that I should leave. “They arrested a dozen people here a few days ago, including an eighty-year-old woman.” I told him to get into the car.

Behind the Gate is intended to introduce visitors of all ages to the benefits and dangers of the Three Gorges Dam, and to detail the stories of individuals displaced by the project and of its environmental impacts.