Scent of a woman
By Chitralekha Basu | China Daily | Updated: 2010-06-18 07:53
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Light shines through the window of a Beijing coffee shop onto the face of Zhai Yongming, earlier this month. Zhai's poetry cycle Nuren, published in 1984, triggered what is known as the "Black Tornado" of women's poetry that swept China from 1986 to 1989. Jonah M. Kessel / China Daily |
Feminist poet Zhai Yongming, who is also an artist, screenwriter and photographer, says the medium may change but the message is always the same. Chitralekha Basu reports
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