Mang Ke

Do you see it?
Do you see that sunflower, raising its head
Glaring at the sun?
Its head almost eclipses the sun
Yet even when there is no sun
Its head still glows.

Mang Ke (芒克, original name Jiang Shiwei), born in 1951, is a prominent Chinese poet and co-founder (with Bei Dao) of the underground literary journal Jintian (Today), which appeared irregularly between 1978 and 1980 before being shut down by the Chinese Government.

Quotes

• Do you see it?
  Do you see that sunflower, raising its head
  Glaring at the sun?
  Its head almost eclipses the sun
  Yet even when there is no sun
  Its head still glows.
  • "Sunflower in the Sun" (trans. Jonathan Stalling and Yibing Huang)

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Mang Ke on Wikipedia