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Yang Mu's memoir provides a rich insight into the author's personal experience, merging human psychology, history, geography and Taiwan's topography into a thick portrait of life in Taiwan during the middle of the twentieth century. -- Paul Manfredi, Pacific Lutheran University

Yang Mu's memoir provides a rich insight into the author's personal experience, merging human psychology, history, geography and Taiwan's topography into a thick portrait of life in Taiwan during the middle of the twentieth century. -- Paul Manfredi, Pacific Lutheran University Memories of Mount Qilai is a landmark in Taiwanese literature as well as in modern Chinese prose. It has reinvented the genre of literary autobiography by welding together a paean to the beauty of indigenous landscapes and peoples, a penetrating look at the social and political transformations in postwar Taiwan, an honest and moving bildungsroman, and, above all, a poetic language that is supple and sinewy at the same time. Written by one of the greatest poets writing in Chinese in our time, Memories of Mount Qilai is a Mount Everest in world literature. -- Michelle Yeh, University of California, Davis Yang Mu is one of the greatest living poets in the Chinese language. His Memories of Mount Qilai is a key work in which he recounts his formative years in Hualien. Memory and identity are indelibly linked; subtle observations of inner states of mind and the outer world are captured in his neo-classicist, poetically charged prose. A classic of autobiographical writing from Taiwan. -- Goran Malmqvist, Member of the Swedish Academy Written at the pen of one of the foremost poets writing in Chinese today, Yang Mu's Memories of Mount Qilai, is part autobiography and part prose. It plumbs the interior depths of the man and exterior highlights of his homeland, Taiwan. Its musings are at different times humorous, curious, sickened, and angry. No other book like it exists in modern Chinese, and as such it typifies the unique character of this fine author. -- Christopher Lupke, Washington State University

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Yang Mu was born and raised in Taiwan. He taught for many years at the University of Washington, Seattle, and National Donghua University in Hualien. He currently divides his time between Seattle and Hualien. He is the author of more than two dozen prose and poetry collections, including On the Water Margin, Flower Season, Lantern Boat, and Legends, as well as the experimental verse drama, Wu Feng: A Play in Four Acts. He recently received the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature. John Balcom teaches at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Recent publications include Li Rui's Trees Without Wind and Grass Roots: Selected Poems of Xiang Yang. He is a past president of the American Literary Translators Association. Yingtsih Balcom is a translator of Western and Chinese literature. She is a regular contributor to Taiwan Literature and has translated I. B. Singer's Shosha and coedited Indigenous Writers of Taiwan.

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