Chuan Xi

XI CHUAN, born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province in 1963 and raised in Beijing, is one of China’s most celebrated poets, essayists, and literary translators. Among the numerous prizes and honors he has received are the national Lu Xun Prize for Literature, the Cikada Prize for poetry in Sweden, and the Tokyo Poetry Prize in Japan. He is a professor at the International Writing Center at Beijing Normal University.

Chuan Xi

XI CHUAN, born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province in 1963 and raised in Beijing, is one of China’s most celebrated poets, essayists, and literary translators. Among the numerous prizes and honors he has received are the national Lu Xun Prize for Literature, the Cikada Prize for poetry in Sweden, and the Tokyo Poetry Prize in Japan. He is a professor at the International Writing Center at Beijing Normal University.

Books by Chuan Xi

  • Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems

    Chuan Xi, Lucas Klein

    Paperback, 2012

    The internationally renowned Chinese poet’s first collection to appear in English.
  • Bloom & Other Poems

    Chuan Xi, Lucas Klein

    Paperback, 2022

    A rhapsodic meditation on the dreams and defeats, disparities and excesses, mythologies and absurdities of contemporary life