PP Back with First Chinese Book Released Today

So, we here at Poetry Pacific Press are back after more than four years on hiatus, and even before the pandemic is gone...

Today we have our very first all-chinese book (kindle edition) officially released on amazon here:

https://www.amazon.ca/-/fr/%E5%8A%89-%E7%91%9C-ebook/dp/B08ZJS7SHG/ref=zg_bsnr_935038_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=HKW8JQPWTZJZ02FVKQ5X

basic information:

book title: Ordinary Life, Ordinary Story 《平凡人生，平凡故事〉

author/narrator: LIU, Yu 刘瑜

character count: 48,000 chinese characters

number of pages: 81 with about a donzen photos

brief description: in a vivid chinese vernacular, with accurate narrative details, Liu recalls how she grew up as an adopted girl to an extremely impoverished family in an isolated village in Hubuei Province, left her parents without their knowing beforehand for a government job at age 15, and became a 'model' mid-level communist official before retirement. To celebrate her 80th birthday, Liu gives this book or memoire to herself as her best birthday gift.

yuan's lit endeavours: 2 mar 21

 1. got 11 acceptances in jan, and 19 in feb.

2. some chinese poems published in taiwan's Autumn Water《秋水诗刊》, and 12 in huaxinshe: wall street journal 《华新社华尔街报》: link:: http://wst.nyc/index.php/zh/%E6%95%A3%E6%96%87%E8%AF%97%E6%AD%8C/%E8%A2%81%E6%98%8C%E6%98%8E%E8%AF%97%E9%80%89

3. completed Love Letters from Vancouver (part II) between 27 dec 2020 and 27 jan 2021. as long as 110,000 chinese characters, the work is composed of 17 letters, as in the first part. since the addressee has some serious concerns, i am not going to post it openly as i did the first part about 8 years ago. but before my death, i will probably self-publish it in a book form, as a record or memoire of my life as well as the way i examine it and hopefully make it 'worthwhile.'

4. on feb 4, and 11, attended a english class held for the toyon literary magazine staff-students, as a special guest and translator. this is a really rewarding experience, not only in terms of money, but more importantly in light of what i have learned. first time to return to an english class in university since i finished my coursework in 1994.

5. on feb 22, received an email from national media foundation, inviting me to be one of the three judges of the 44th national magazine awards (best poetry category). given the great honour, this is really a big happy surprise. as of today, i have completed exactly half of the job; the results will be released sometime in april.  

6. on feb 25, invited by poetry in voice, to write a 'one liner', and 'dive-in' ( a group of questions about a pariticular poem). i have chosen wang xiaoni's 'i feel the sun', and even finished drafting everything. i selected this poem simply because i wrote something similar long before i knew of her.