This is an anthology of reminiscences and poems by three internationalist poets: ai Ch’ing (1910-1996), a renowned literature of modern China; the Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda (1904-1973); and the famous Afro-Cuban pet Nicolas Guillen (1902-1990). The verses in this book reflect the corss-cultural impressions that the three poets had during their transcontinental tour. Ai Ch’ing’s impressions of some Latin American and African countries; and Neruda and Guillen’s impressions of China, Vietnam and India constitute the corups of this book. The poems here are depictions of how they viewed different societies in other corners of the world in a cultural atmosphere so alien to them. Most of the works in this anthology are annotated. The book includes the biographic chronologies of all the three poets. A bibliography at the end of this book would help the readers in their reference. This is altogether a new endeavour towards greater understanding between the Orient and the Occident.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Cristina Beatriz del Rio Aguirre
Cristina Beatriz del Rio Aguirre (born 1968 in Ourense, Spain): Educated in Spanish Philology and linguistics at the University of Complutense in Madrid. Later she did a postgraduate course in Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language in the same university. She served as a visiting teacher at the Centre of Spanish Studies, JNU.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Priyadarsi Mukherji
Priyadarsi Mukherji (born 1962 in Calcutta, India): A poet and a polyglot since childhood. Educated at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and later specialized in modern Chinese literature at Fudan University, Shanghai; and in folklore and folk literature at Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. He won the first prize at the international Chinese Speech Contest at Shanghai in 1986. Teaching Chinese language, and culture at JNU since 1989. Obtained his Ph.D. at the School of International Studies, JNU. Served as the Chairperson of the Centre for Chinese and South-East Asian Studies, JNU-1996-1998, 2000-2002. His published works include: Poems of Lu Hsun (in Bengali), 1991; Contemporary Chinese Versed (in Hindi), 1998; Chinese and Tibetan Societies through Folk literature, 1999; Poems and Fabies of Ai Ch'ing (in Bengali), 2000. He is also the main contributor to a trillingual (Greek-English-Hindi) edition of Twelve Greek Peoms (2001) with his Hindi translation, sponsored by the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has also published a number of articles on varied subjects related to China and intercultural studies both in Indian and Chinese journals. In 1997, he was appointed an honorary adviser to the Scholars' and Artists' Club, Beijing and also as an Oriental Studies adviser to the Dunhuang Pan-Asiatic Centre for Cultural and Art Exchanges, Beijing. In 1998, he went on an academic trip to Taiwan. In 2002, he become the first Indian recipient of the China Cultural Research Scholarship.
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