New Cathay: Contemporary Chinese Poetry

With its carefully-selected range of poets and choice of contents, New Cathay is an up-to-date and exciting take on Chinese contemporary poetry. Published by Tupelo Press with the support of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute, as part of their "Poets in the World" series, this anthology comprises poems by more than 25 Chinese poets, including those who are living in as well as outside China—Duo Duo, Wang Xiaoni, Xiao Kaiyu, Zang Di and Hu Xudong—translated into English by leading, predominantly US-based translators Ming Di, Neil Aitken, Christopher Lupke, Eleanor Goodman and Cody Reese. The collection's editor, Ming Di (the pen-name of Mindy Zhang), is editor of Poetry East West a leading literary magazine featuring Chinese poems in bilingual versions. She has also written six collections of her own in Chinese and translated four other volumes.