TANG YAPING (1962-)

Tang Yaping was born in Sichuan and graduated from Sichuan University as a philosophy major in 1983. She has worked as an editor at the Guizhou television station in the Southwest of China. She is part of a younger generation of Chinese woman poets who have reacted to the new freedom of expression after he death of Mao Zedong in 1976 caused a loosening up of the repression of sexuality and romance during the Cultural Revolution (during which Mao decreed that sexuality and romance were to be eliminated from the media and redirected towards revolution). Dealing with sex, romance, orgasm, masturbation, and gender roles, she is an intense and thoroughly contemporary poet.


 

        ---Translated by Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping