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Wang Ping's latest book of poetry is a song for the plight and pride of immigrants around the globe. Whether they pull up their roots to flee war, the rising sea or drought, for religious freedom and freedom of speech, or simply to seek a better life, immigrants are the frontiers of civilization. They are a force of nature, like salmon, monarchs, trees, water, and mountains, moving with rivers, the earth and universe. Migration is the signature of life - no immigrants, no economy; no immigration, no civilization; no migration, no life. We are all immigrants.
Explaining her inspiration for this book, Wang reflected, "Shortly after arriving in the U.S., I walked into the wrong class, which turned out to be a creative writing workshop taught by a poet. I decided to stay in the course and wrote my first poem there. It was about my experience in New York as an immigrant. It got published, then selected by The Best American Poetry. I went on to write more immigrant stories about people from around the world, as I discovered we are one giant village of immigration, and as the topic has grown in importance."
Read more about My Name Is Immigrant (Release Date: June 2020 - Hanging Loose Press).
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Life of Miracles
along the Yangtze
and Mississippi
Creative Nonfiction
Copyright 2018
University of GA Press
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There are only two ways to live our life, according to Albert Einstein: one is as if nothing is a miracle; the other, as if everything is a miracle. This is a book about how the impossible became possible - about things that happened in China and America to the people Wang Ping grew up with, met, and befriended along her journeys between these two distant rivers. This is also a story about water, alive with spirits and energy, giving birth to all sentient beings. We are water. The river runs through us. Those who live in harmony with water can ride the current of the universe. Read more...
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Ten Thousand Waves
Poetry
Copyright 2014
Wings Press
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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. The titular poem, "Ten Thousand Waves," was inspired by a tragedy that occurred on February 5, 2004, when more than twenty Chinese laborers drowned in Morecambe Bay, England, as they were caught by an incoming tide. The victims were undocumented immigrants, mainly from Fujian Province, China. Read more...
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Flash Cards:
Poems by Yu Jian
Poetry
Copyright 2010
Zephyr Press
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Translated by Wang Ping and Ron Padgett, Flash Cards is a primer of modern Chinese life, constructing a complex philosophical vision from swatches of daily events and observations. As Yu Jian has written about his own work: "It is possible to see eternity - to see everything - in a teacup or a sweet wrapper. Everything in the world is poetry." Born in 1954 in Kunming, China, Yu Jian is a poet, author, documentary film director, and a major figure among the "Third Generation Poets" who came after the "Misty Poetry" movement of the early 1980s.
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The Dragon Emperor:
A Chinese Folktale
Children's Folklore
Copyright 2008
Millbrook Press
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One night in ancient China, a special baby is born. He is an emperor, and he is also a dragon! The dragon emperor becomes a powerful ruler, but a warrior named Chi You is jealous. He plans to overthrow the emperor and take control of China. Will the emperor protect his country, or will the Black Dragon prevail?
Intended for ages 9-12, this 48-page graphic tale, retold by Wang Ping and illustrated by Tang Ge, is divided into four chapters, plus an afterward about the history between dragons and emperors.
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The Last Communist Virgin
Short Stories
Copyright 2007
Coffee House Press
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Wang Ping returns to fiction in a story collection that stands out as one of the few books on modern China and the contemporary Chinese-American experience. From the restaurants of New York's Chinatown to the retail emporium of Bergdorf Goodman, and from remote Chinese military outposts to the streets of Beijing, these stories open a window into the rapid transformations of an ancient culture. It is a book about love in a fast-changing world: love for the people and land from west to east, the new and old, the real and imaginative, the technology around us and the soul within us. Read more...
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