Lew Poo Chan is better known by her pen name, Dan Ying, under which she has published poetry to great acclaim since 1966, when her first collection, Farewell, A Long Farewell, was published in Taiwan. She has won numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Development Council of Singapore (NBDCS) Book Award for Poems of Taiji, and for Time Passing Through My Hair. Her work has also appeared in many anthologies, and she is currently lecturer at the National University of Singapore.

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In the original Chinese, and also translated especially for openDemocracy by Ho Chee Lick, a poem by one of China’s finest women poets, Lew Poo Chan.