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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?