Luminous Memories: Bei Dao in Conversation with Eliot Weinberger

On Sept. 26, 2017, Bei Dao, widely recognized as the foremost poet of his generation, engaged essayist and translator Eliot Weinberger in conversation at Columbia University about his newly published memoir "City Gate, Open Up." Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute; the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society; Huang and Lin Fund for the Program in Chinese Literature and Culture; The Center for Contemporary Critical Thought; New Directions Publishing; Department of English and Comparative Literature; the Writing Program of the Columbia University School of the Arts; and Literary Translation at Columbia (LTAC) of the Columbia University School of the Arts

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What a treasure this is. Just stumbled on this recording. The translator is extraordinary.