再别康桥 ‘Taking leave of Cambridge again’ by Xu Zhimo

The IOE Hanban teachers have many additional skills and talents.  To tie in with the literature strand of this year’s Annual Conference, the teachers performed the famous Chinese poem ‘Taking leave of Cambridge again’ by Xu Zhimo – it was a performance with a difference (we recommend watching to the end)!

Watch the performance:

English translation:
See the Xu Zhimo Wikipedia article here for the text of the poem with an excellent English translation by Professor Guohua Chen.

Paintings by IOE Hanban teacher Pan Jie, inspired by this poem: