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The Magic Whip Paperback – October 1, 2003

by Wang Ping (Author)
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This melodic, visceral collection -juxtaposes the author’s unbridled joy in motherhood with the complex and brutal practice of footbinding in China, the plight of Tibet, and the remarkable endurance of survivors everywhere. The Magic Whip pays particular attention to women and children whose ordeals have been -imprinted on their very bodies and whose memories resonate in these -exceptionally clear poems.

Wang Ping, born in Shanghai, came to New York City in 1985 after graduating from Beijing University. She is the acclaimed author of the novel Foreign Devil, the story collection American Visa, the poetry collection Of Flesh & Spirit, and the academic study Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota and teaches at Macalester College.

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  1. Print length
    90 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Coffee House Press
  4. Publication date
    October 1, 2003
  5. Dimensions
    7 x 0.3 x 10 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1566891477
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1566891479
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The whip of the title was the waist-length pigtail of a young girl, the symbol of her nubility and untried sexuality and, as such, analogous to the bound "lotus foot" that kept Chinese women virtually immobile and, perhaps for that reason, held erotic power for men. Shanghai-born Wang Ping braids the two emblems of sexual status together in this book's disturbing title poem, chiming their images with men's traditional queues, shaven pubic hair, hair bleach, permanent waves, and other tokens of power and sex. Her other poems similarly work at the margins of culture, power, and gender, though never in an ideologically simplistic way. Although a few poems are conventional free-verse lyrics, most are strange, proselike lists of startling facts and tiny peculiar narratives, like the one about a radio dial rambling over odd, unsettling talk shows. Similarly to the hovering and settling dial, Wang Ping moves between ancient and modern China, between domesticity and wild freedom, between eroticism and politics, and her compelling juxtapositions jar the reader into experiencing insight. Patricia Monaghan
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"Wang Ping's "The Magic Whip is riddled with surprises that bite and soothe. Though populated with Chinese myths and talismans, the tonal muscle and unique imagery of this rewarding collection tug us away from the stereotypical. There's something wise and original in these poems wrung from need."--Yusef Komunyakaa

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Coffee House Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 1, 2003
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 90 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1566891477
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1566891479
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.3 x 10 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #6,717,834 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer Reviews:
    5.0 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

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Wang Ping was born in Shanghai and came to USA in 1986.

Her publications include Ten Thousand Waves, poetry book from Wings Press, 2014, American Visa (short stories, 1994), Foreign Devil (novel, 1996), Of Flesh and Spirit (poetry, 1998), The Magic Whip (poetry, 2003), The Last Communist Virgin (stories, 2007), all from Coffee House, New Generation: Poetry from China Today, 1999 from Hanging Loose Press, Flash Cards: Poems by Yu Jian, co-translation with Ron Padgett, 2010 from Zephyr Press. Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China (2000, University of Minnesota Press, 2002 paperback by Random House) won the Eugene Kayden Award for the Best Book in Humanities. The Last Communist Virgin won 2008 Minnesota Book Award and Asian American Studies Award. She had many multi-media exhibitions: “Behind the Gate: After the Flooding of the Three Gorges” at Janet Fine Art Gallery, and “All Roads to Lhasa” at Banfill-Lock Cultural Center, and “Kinship of Rivers” at the Soap Factory in St. Paul and Minneapolis, Great River Museum in Illinois, Fireworks Press at St. Louis, Great River Road Center at Prescott, Wisconsin, Emily Carr University in Vancouver, University of California Santa Barbara, and many other places. She collaborated with the British filmmaker Isaac Julien on Ten Thousand Waves, a film installation about the illegal Chinese immigration in London. She is the recipient of National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council of the Arts, Minnesota State Arts Board, the Bush Artist Fellowship, Lannan Foundation Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, and the McKnight Artist Fellowship.

She is the founder and director of the Kinship of Rivers project, a five-year project that builds a sense of kinship among the people who live along the Mississippi and Yangtze Rivers through exchanging gifts of art, poetry, stories, music, dance and food. She paddles along the Mississippi River and its tributaries, giving poetry and art workshops along the river communities, making thousands of flags as gifts and peace ambassadors between the Mississippi and the Yangtze Rivers.

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  • AE
    5.0 out of 5 stars Went to buy Billy Collins and walked out with this instead.
    Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2004
    Format: Paperback
    I am an American woman living in the Republic of China. Wang Ping is a Chinese woman living in New York. This book builds a paradoxal bridge between the two cultures. It's painfully insightful and factual. The subject matter ranges from personal accounts of struggling in a new country to footbinding from the perspective of a young girl in China, to the the reality of war in a modern world. There are many different stories and concepts delivered through this book. I haven't found one yet of which I haven't devoured every word.
    If you study poetry and want to read some really well-written stuff, or are interested in women's rights, China, or have ever immigrated to a new country, I think you'll benefit widely from this read.
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  • Megan A. Burns
    5.0 out of 5 stars Engaging Poems With Enduring Imagery
    Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2004
    Format: Paperback
    The weight of these poems is subtle. Ping interweaves her historical experiences with words that attempt to bisect her "foreign" and "native" selves. Metaphors emerge whose intricacies seem key to understanding the dual worlds contained in these poems. She uses the liminal space between prose and poetry to try to reach out and create a new form that can encompass the many things she needs to say. Very beautiful and honest work.
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