鳥 Bird
- Title
- 鳥 Bird
- Description
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"One of the first poems in modern vernacular Chinese, written by Chen Hengzhe, the first woman professor in China, and published on 新青年 (Xin Qing Nian/ The New Youth Magazine).
Translation of the last verse:
[If I ever escape the cage,
I care not those directions lost,
Nor the sky storm-tossed,
I will fly to a world endlessly vast!
Fly till my last drop of strengthen drained, the last mountain conquered, and the last river exhausted,
Then to the raging wind I go forth,
Take my feathers, muscles and bones,
Every trace blown into the air of the free!]" - Creator
- H. Z. Chen
- Date
- 1918-05
- Spatial Coverage
- Cantong, China
- Type
- Poetry
- Rights
- The 新青年(Xin Qing Nian/ New Youth) magazine is archived on the Chinese Periodical Full-Text Database and accessed only through Columbia library research account.
- Item sets
- Performing Women Student Collection
This item was submitted on November 1, 2023 by Lingyi using the form “Students” on the site “Performing Women”: https://omeka.dhcbarnard.org/s/performing-women
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