City Gate, Open Up

by Bei Dao

In 2001, to visit his sick father, the exiled poet Bei Dao returned to his homeland for the first time in over twenty years. The city of his birth was totally unrecognizable. "My city that once was had vanished," he writes: "I was a foreigner in my hometown." The shock of this experience released a flood of memories and emotions that sparked Open Up, City Gate. In this lyrical autobiography of growing up--from the birth of the People's Republic, through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811226433
• ISBN13: 9780811226431
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 7.9"