Wang Chi-chen (1899–2001)
These were his last words.
Source: Dream of the Red Chamber (1958), pp. 89–90
“Is this the visitor from the wrong side
of the mirror? Or the shape
that suddenly flitted past my window?
Is it the new moon playing tricks,
or is someone really standing there again
between the stove and the cupboard?”
Poem without a Hero (1963)
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