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Event Details
September 2, 2009
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UC Berkeley
IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
Berkeley, CA

United States

Public Talk

A Lifetime is a Promise to Keep: Artistic Expression and Resistance in the work of Huang Xiang

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Huang Xiang, Poet and Calligrapher
Michelle Yeh, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Davis

Labeled a dissident poet and artist, Huang Xiang, whose work is still banned in China, will offer an artistic performance and a reading from his new book, A Lifetime Is a Promise to Keep: Poems of Huang Xiang.  The book, published by IEAS in 2009, contains an introduction to Huang Xiang and his poetry, as well as Chinese and English versions of his poems. Described by Michelle Yeh as “an irrepressible free spirit” sustained by his belief in life through the harrowing experiences of repression, he and his poems speak with vitality and intensity, with humility and gentleness.  Words and images intertwine as Huang Xiang offers a demonstration of his work in visual art