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The Desert City Remembered for a Tragic Poet

Delingha in Qinghai was made famous by revered poet Haizi, now the city is trying to use that fame to boost tourism

“This is a desolate city in the rain, except to the people who live there and those who pass by,” Zha Haisheng, commonly known as Haizi (海子), wrote one night in 1988 about the remote city of Delingha in China’s far-western Qinghai province.

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