 When George W. Bush visited Angela Merkel's hometown of Stralsund, Germany, in July 2006, the local residents protested with a public reading of the text.The author of a study of Chinese poetry translation, "19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei", Weinberger is the current translator of the poetry of the poet Bei Dao, and the editor of "The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry", also a TLS "International Book of the Year.