China's Emily Dickinson - Yu Xiuhua Receives Interview In Beijing

BEIJING, CHINA - FEBRUARY 01: (CHINA OUT) Farmer poet Yu Xiuhua presents a live program of China National Radio on February 1, 2015 in Beijing, China. Yu Xiuhua, a Chinese rural woman from Hengdian, Hubei province and suffering from brain paralysis becomes a big hit online for her composed randomly poems "Crossing Half The Country To Sleep With You". She suffers brain paralysis from a lack of oxygen during birth, and is unable to walk and talk properly like an ordinary person. Because of physical limitations on her body, she can't do much farm work except for simple housework or raising animals. While she gains mere comfort from poems which she began writing in 2009. The poems "Crossing Half The Country To Sleep With You" she composed randomly for fun brings her fame and makes her be hailed as China's Emily Dickinson. (Photo by Visual China Group via Getty Images/Visual China Group via Getty Images)