Re: Leung Ping-kwan died (5-1-2013)

Ross Clark wrote:

He was a poet who wrote under the pen name "Yesi". Born Guangdong 1949, lived most of his life in Hong Kong.

He is "a perfect illustration of the intimate way language and culture interact", says Crystal. He quotes a poem called "Yellow Rice", and an interview comment about "Comprador Soup".

Wikipedia has this about his pen name:

Yesi" is a combination of two meaningless words, both interjections, in Chinese. According to Yesi, people usually adopt a pen name that contains meanings, which would give the readers a fixed feeling or impression towards their works before they read them. Yesi wanted to break out of this, hence, he used the combination of two meaningless words, which usually appear in classical Chinese literary works, as his pen name.[citation needed]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leung_Ping-kwan

    it didn't work... (in English)  because   Yesi  looks just like    Yes,   Yeti     Did he write in Chinese?   Mandarin ?
       are you using an Almanac?  which one?