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183 Notes “Vérité” This poem was written in memory of several hundred thousand lives lost during a series of catastrophic dam collapses due to Typhoon Nina in the area of the Huai River, South Henan in August 1975. For thirty years, the death toll was classified. Located between the Yellow River and the Yangtze, the Huai region has, over the centuries, an infamous history of disastrous floods. “Death of a Cobbler” Modern Chinese writer and poet Xu Yunuo 徐玉诺 (1893–1958) was a native of Henan and a literary figure from the May Fourth period. Best known for his poetry collection, Garden of the Future (19), his representative writings include the poem, “Ask the Cobbler” (19) and short story, “A Broken Shoe” (193). “Meditations” One of the prose poems in Baudelaire’s Le Spleen de Paris (1869) is entitled “Assommons les pauvres !” (“Knock Down the Poor!”) Fiona Sze-Lorrain wishes to thank Susan Thomas, Sally Molini, Maryanne Hannan, Thomas Moran, Naomi Long, Jeffrey Greene, and Christopher Mattison. 184 “Siesta” Often found in northern Chinese households, a kang bed is a masonry or earthern platform. It is heated in winter by a stove fire underneath, or spread with mats. “Ruins of the Great River Village” First discovered in the autumn of 1964, the Ruins of the Great River Village — also known as the Ruins of Dahe Village, a primitive village from the Neolithic Era — are located in the northeast suburbs of Zhengzhou, Henan. The site covers over forty million square meters with ruins and relics from the prehistorical cultures of the Central Plain: the Yangshao (5–3 bc), Longshan (3– bc), and Erlitou (19–15 bc) cultures during the New Stone Age, as well as the early Shang (16 bc) culture. “In Xiaodian” Xiaodian — literally translated as “Small Shop” — is a village located in Baofeng county, Henan province. “Sky Mountains” Literally translated as “Sky Mountains” or the “Heavenly Mountains,” Tianshan is a large mountain system of Central Asia. Tianchi, also known as “Heaven Lake” or “the Heavenly Lake,” is located in Xinjiang on the northern side of the Bogda Mountains, part of the eastern range of Tianshan. ...

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