Ten Thousand Waves : Poems.
Title:
Ten Thousand Waves : Poems.
Author:
Ping, Wang.
ISBN:
9781609403539
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (114 pages)
Contents:
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 Poets -- This 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.
Abstract:
Looking at a wide swath of Chinese history and literature, this collection examines various issues stemming from immigration to America. Wang Ping 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 titular poem, "Ten Thousand Waves," was inspired by a tragedy that occurred on February 5, 2004. More than 20 Chinese laborers drowned in Morecambe Bay, England, when they were caught by an incoming tide. They were collecting cockles late in the evening, having been misinformed about the tidal times. The victims were undocumented immigrants, mainly from Fujian Province, China. In 2006, English filmmaker Nick Broomfield directed and produced Ghosts, a dramatic film based on the tragedy at Morecambe Bay. Not long after that, another filmmaker, Isaac Julien, commissioned Ping to write a narrative script for his film on global immigration, Small Boats. When he saw the finished poem, Julien decided to make a film installation specifically on Chinese immigration, which he entitled Ten Thousand Waves, after Ping's poem. Ten Thousand Waves has been featured at the Pace Foundation galleries in San Antonio, Texas, and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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