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The author is grateful to Witter Bynner as well as The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry for granting permission to reprint Mr. Bynner's translation, as adapted by the author, of Zhang Ji's poem, “A Night-Mooring Near Maple Bridge.” The translation appears in
The Chinese Translations: The Works of Witter Bynner
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Alexandra Gambrill Curry, Canadian-born of Austrian and British parentage, has spent happy years living in Asia, Europe, Canada, and the United States. A graduate of Wellesley College, she now lives in Atlanta.
The Courtesan
is her first
novel.

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