Zhang Lian in front of his little house in his native hamlet, where he lived between 1993 and 2005. Fully aware of the pitfalls of her task, during what she called "the most intense period" of the three years between 2018 and 2021 that she spent translating Zhang's poems, Liu was engaged in frequent WeChat exchanges with the poet on …
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