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Chang Chiao-Ling Chang Chiao-Ling is an award-winning poet from Taiwan, regarded as one of the top ten avant-garde Chinese poets. Critics have praised her as a rare poet combining emotional sincerity and philosophical truthfulness. Between the words there is an original vitality and uniquely subtle quality.

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The Chang Chiao-Ling Internet Archive is the most complete collection of work by Chang Chiao-Ling on the Internet.

Her two most recent books are published here in their entirety, in the original Chinese and the author's own English translation. Examples of Chang Chiao-Ling's artwork, and collections of her earlier writings are also available for reading.
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Front cover Late Matured Earth is a collection of 36 poems by Chang Chiao-Ling, written in London during 1998.

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Poppy's Dimension was written in 1999, a year after Late Matured Earth was completed. It collects 49 of Chang Chiao-Ling's poems, as well as examples of her artwork.

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Front cover

  But I still commit the crime of being born
Why one is born naked but the whole body is still loaded with sin
Only if we could draw a time like a truffle  Read our last life's shame or pride

"Vatican's worry"  - Late Matured Earth
 

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