Ting Wang’s translations are published or forthcoming in Ploughshares, Southern Review, Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Massachusetts Review, Denver Quarterly, Asymptote, and elsewhere. The recipient of a Vermont Studio Center / Henry Luce Foundation Chinese Poetry & Translation Fellowship, she holds a PhD from Northwestern University and lives and works in the Washington metropolitan area.
Dacheng Flour Factory, Shekou, Shenzhen / Photo by Chris / Flickr
Every day, educated youth of the erstwhile industrial zone
ride the sightseeing elevator, up and down, crowding
into the skylark th…