The River at the Centre of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time by Simon Winchester

Author:Simon Winchester
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Travel, Essays & Travelogues, Asia, General, China, Biography & Autobiography, Yangtze River Region (China), History
ISBN: 9780140249125
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1996-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Mao Zedong was a very considerable poet – in output, if not always in quality – and he was prone to memorialize what he regarded as his greater achievements with lines of verse. His poem ‘Swimming' is one of his best-known. He wrote it in 1956, shortly after his first swim in the Yangtze: he had come from swimming both the Pearl River in Canton and Xiang River at Changsha, which is why he began this brief gem as he did – lines that retain most of their value, even allowing that Chinese poetry loses much in the translation:

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