· Bei Dao’s City Gate, Open Up is a memoir for a particular kind of person. I suspect that, if you have picked up the book already, you know why. City Gate, Open Up focuses on Bei Dao’s family members, neighbors, and friends, as well as his schools, places of travel, and Chinese historical events—pretty much anything but waxing poetic about the poet himself/5. · City Gate, Open Up User Review - Publishers Weekly. In this ruminative, lyrical memoir, revered Chinese poet Bei Dao (The Rose of Time) reflects on . The city of his birth was totally unrecognizable. “My city that once was had vanished,” he writes: “I was a foreigner in my hometown.” The shock of this experience released a flood of memories and emotions that sparked Open Up, City Gate. In this lyrical autobiography of growing up―from the birth of the People’s Republic, through the chaotic years of the Great Leap Forward, and on into the Cultural /5(8).
Bei Dao. A magical, impressionistic autobiography by China's legendary poet Bei Dao. In , to visit his sick father, the exiled poet Bei Dao returned to his homeland for the first time in over twenty years. The city of his birth was totally unrecognizable. City Gate, Open Up allows him to speak somewhat more expansively about his Beijing, but as in his poetry, he can make restraint sound like an outburst. The core of City Gate, Open Up swirls around the people who influenced Bei Dao - close childhood friends, uncles and aunts, teachers who. Author: Bei Dao. City Gate, Open Up. Publication Date: Publisher: Carcanet Press. Bei Dao (the pseudonym means 'north island') was born in Beijing in Educated into the beliefs of Communist China, his subsequent disaffection found its voice in poetry, for which he has been.
City Gate, Open Up is an ocean of recollections. Bei Dao’s impressionistic account of his childhood and youth in Beijing, is unlike any book he has ever written. —Ratik Asokan, Caravan Magazine. What a fine book! Funny, astute, touching, subtle, personal, widely human. The city of his birth was totally unrecognizable. “My city that once was had vanished,” he writes: “I was a foreigner in my hometown.” The shock of this experience released a flood of memories and emotions that sparked Open Up, City Gate. In this lyrical autobiography of growing up―from the birth of the People’s Republic, through the chaotic years of the Great Leap Forward, and on into the Cultural Revolution―Bei Dao uses his extraordinary gifts as a poet and storyteller to. City Gate, Open Up, Bei Dao, Jeffrey Yang (trans) (New Directions, April ) Other than its engagement with personal and social history, City Gate, Open Up is Bei Dao’s candid reflection on his own identity and development as a writer. He recounts the first poem he wrote in his fourth grade, “using an assortment of weighty-sounding phrases”, conscious of the influence of Gao Shiqi, a popular science writer at that time.
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