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Chinese poet, translator, scholar and editor Zhang Ziqing described Zhang Er as "a brilliant bilingual translator made a great success in introducing American and Chinese poetries into each other's country," and added that "her translations of American poets would appear in Poetry in
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Another Kind of Nation: an
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