The Spring

Ouyang Yu graduated from La Trobe University with a doctoral degree in Australian literature and has had twenty-odd Chinese and English books published in the field of fiction, poetry, literary translation, and literary criticism. His most recent English-language novel is The Eastern Slope Chronicle (Brandl & Schlesinger, Sydney, September 2002). He has published his fourth book of poetry, Two Hearts, Two Tongues and Rain-coloured Eyes (Wild Peony, Sidney, September 2002) and his thirteenth book of translation, in Chinese, of Robert Hughes’s The Shock of the New (Baihua Publishing House, China, January 2003). His fifth book of poetry, Selected Poems of Ouyang Yu, is forthcoming with Salt Publishing (United Kingdom, 2003).