How to Be A/Political: The Seven Books of the Sun

Dead just months before the June 4th massacre in Tiananmen Square, Hai Zi is held up as the great “pure” poet of contemporary China, unconcerned with politics. But how true is that? We discuss his epic work, The Seven Books of the Sun, by way of grappling with the question.

In this podcast, we refer to a monograph by Rui Kunze, a scholar at Germany’s International Consortium for Research in the Humanities.