Matthew Hayden expects that the upcoming edition of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy will be fairly even and the team batting better throughout the course of the series will end up taking the honours. Hayden opines that both units are formidable enough on paper and “it's hard to really tell who's got the edge”. "You look at the line-ups, and it's hard …
Zhang Lian in his native home in Yanchi, in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, at sunset. KUANG LINHUA/CHINA DAILY 'Peasant poet' Zhang Lian, whose words paint vivid pictures of his remote, vast home, has captivated and inspired professors and plumbers alike, Zhao Xu reports. The aim of the trip was for Liu, a professor of linguistics and world literature …
Twilight, a collection of Zhang's poems, translated by Liu Keming. "The magnitude of hardship" is what Liu believes underlies Zhang's poems, although it is only referred to occasionally and obliquely. He paints with his words and vision," says Jack Gismondi, who was just "Jack the plumber" to Liu until one day in October 2018, half a year after the latter's …