Zhai Yongming

Zhai Yongming is a Chinese poet from Chengdu. After being sent away for two years during the Cultural Revolution to do manual labor in the countryside, she returned to Chengdu. In 1981 she began to publish her poems. Her poem cycles include “Women,” “Jing’an Village,” “Life in This World,” and “The Designs of Death.” Her poetry collections include Women, Above All the Roses, Collected Poems of Zhai Yongming, and Plain Songs in the Dark Night. She has been invited to international conferences and poetry festivals in several countries in Europe and lived in the United States from 1990 to 1992.