Contemporary Chinese Poetry

Author : Er Zhang,Dongdong Chen
Publisher : Talisman House, Publishers
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131870201

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Another Kind of Nation by Er Zhang,Dongdong Chen Pdf

"Another Kind of Nation" collects works by twenty-four poets from mainland China born after 1960 who are currently writing and publishing in Chinese. Although well-known in China, most of them appear in English translation for the first time in this book. Edited by Chinese poets Zhang Er and Chen Dongdong, "Another Kind of Nation" offers an introduction to Chinese poetry today in the shadows of a long poetic tradition, the globalization of capitalism, and a renewed nationalism. The Chinese texts are presented in the original as well as in English translations prepared by American poet/translators in collaboration with Chinese writers. The book includes introductions by the editors in English and in Chinese, a preface on the translation process, and biographical notes for both poets and translators. -- From publisher's description.

Author : Nick Admussen
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824856557

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Recite and Refuse by Nick Admussen Pdf

Chinese prose poetry today is engaged with a series of questions that are fundamental to the modern Chinese language: What is prose? What is it good for? How should it look and sound? Millions of Chinese readers encounter prose poetry every year, both in the most official of state-sponsored magazines and in the unorthodox, experimental work of the avant-garde. Recite and Refuse makes the answers to our questions about prose legible by translating, surveying, and interpreting prose poems, and by studying the people, politics, and contexts that surround the writing of prose poetry. Author Nick Admussen argues that unlike most genres, Chinese prose poems lack a distinct size or shape. Their similarity to other prose is the result of a distinct process in which a prose form is recited with some kind of meaningful difference—an imitation that refuses to fully resemble its source. This makes prose poetry a protean, ever-changing group of works, channeling the language of science, journalism, Communist Party politics, advertisements, and much more. The poems look vastly different as products, but are made with a similar process. Focusing on the composition process allows Admussen to rewrite the standard history of prose poetry, finding its origins not in 1918 but in the obedient socialist prose poetry of the 1950s. Recite and Refuse places the work of state-sponsored writers in mutual relationship to prose poems by unorthodox and avant-garde poets, from cadre writers like Ke Lan and Guo Feng to the border-crossing intellectual and poet Liu Zaifu to experimental artists such as Ouyang Jianghe and Xi Chuan. The volume features never-before seen English translations that range from the representative to the exceptional, culminating with Ouyang Jianghe’s masterpiece “Hanging Coffin.” Reading across the spectrum enables us to see the way that artists interact with each other, how they compete and cooperate, and how their interactions, as well as their creations, continuously reinvent both poetry and prose.

Author : W. N. Herbert,Lian Yang,Brian Holton,Xiaoyu Qin
Publisher : Bloodaxe Books Limited
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1852248955

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Jade Ladder by W. N. Herbert,Lian Yang,Brian Holton,Xiaoyu Qin Pdf

Comprehensive anthology of contemporary Chinese poetry. Indispensable reading for anyone with an interest in the future not just of China, but of poetry.

Author : C. Lupke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230610149

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New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry by C. Lupke Pdf

This book brings together fresh research from experts on contemporary Chinese poetry, built upon one of the most glorious poetic traditions of any civilization in the world yet historically neglected by scholars in English. This comprehensive volume offers readable and provocative treatments of many of the most important Chinese poets of our age.

Author : Maghiel van Crevel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106013246027

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Language Shattered by Maghiel van Crevel Pdf

Language Shattered is both a history of poetry from the People's Republic of China and a case study of the oeuvre of a leading Chinese poet. After the stifling orthodoxy of the 1950s and early 1960s, the terror of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) brought official Chinese literature to a total standstill. At the same time, disillusioned youths were more or less accidentally exposed to a varied body of foreign literature and began writing underground poetry. In the 1980s this poetry scene, now above ground, became one of pluriformity and proliferation in both official and unofficial circuits. The brutal suppression of the 1989 Protest Movement gave it an exile offshoot. The historical overview in Part I of this book is complemented in Part II by a discussion of Duoduo's poetry. Duoduo's career as a poet reflects the vicissitudes of Chinese Experimental poetry - and his beautiful, headstrong poems merit attention in themselves. They show that Chinese poetry is not just of interest as a chronicle of Chinese politics, but as literature in its own right.

Author : Robert Payne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000583144

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Contemporary Chinese Poetry by Robert Payne Pdf

This book, first published in 1947, is an anthology of Chinese poetry from a period when it was entering an entirely new world, where all or nearly all the ancient poetic traditions were being cast aside. No longer could Chinese poetry be regarded as the graceful accomplishment of retired sages: the new voices were powerful, realistic, even brutal.

Author : Naikan Tao,Tony Prince
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106018943420

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Eight Contemporary Chinese Poets by Naikan Tao,Tony Prince Pdf

An anthology of poems by Yang Lian, Jiang He, Han Dong, Yu Jian, Zhai Yongming, Zhang Zhen, Xi Chuan and Hai Zi. These poets have initiated the trends of elitist poetry, neo-realist poetry, women's poetry and cosmopolitan poetry that dominated Chinese poetry from the mid-1980s for almost two decades and remains a continuing presence today.

Author : Paul Manfredi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1604978627

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Modern Poetry in China by Paul Manfredi Pdf

This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series (general editor: Victor H. Mair). *Includes rare color images. Chinese poetry, along with many other art forms in China, underwent a highly self-conscious transformation in the first decades of the twentieth century. Poetry, perhaps more than any other art form, did so under the heavy burden of a voluminous literary precedent, a precedent which was in its very format of patterned words inscribed on scrolls--a mark of the Chinese literati tradition. Turning away from this tradition seemed necessary in the context of a political, social, and cultural reform movement (which was designed to strengthen China in the face of increasing international pressure as well as domestic breakdown). At the same time, reforming a poetic tradition which had served as a principal touchstone of aesthetic accomplishment--from its role in Confucian canon as object of contemplation for correct action, to its function as a test of candidate's qualifications to govern through the civil service examination, to its function as national past-time in all manner of social gathering--was a major challenge. The result of such a predicament for poets throughout the twentieth century has been the compulsion to discover a poetic style which resonates with the modern world and yet is rooted in Chinese cultural experience. One way in which poets have been able to accomplish this is by relying on poetry's visuality, be it in the graphic properties of the writing system itself, the visual context of the presentation of the poetic texts, or the acute image details in the poems. The history of approximately one century of modern Chinese poetry production has been addressed broadly in scholarship, but such broad strokes tend to miss important dynamics which fall outside of general narratives. The importance of Chinese visual tradition to modern Chinese poets is a good case in point. Accordingly, this book addresses specific manifestations of the nexus connecting modernity and visuality in Chinese poetry. It begins with a discussion of May Fourth poetics as exemplified in the groundbreaking work of Li Jinfa, China's first "Symbolist" poet. From there the book traces notable developments of visuality in the new form or free verse writing (called Xinshi or "New Poetry") through mid-century modernist experiments in Taiwan (focusing on Ji Xian). From there the book then explores the avant-garde poetry of Luo Qing and Xia Yu before returning to mainland Chinese developments of Misty poets Yan Li and his contemporaries. The work concludes with a wide variety of poet-artists writing and exhibiting in the twenty-first century. Looking across this period of modern Chinese poetry's development, one is able to observe how important the visual-verbal dynamic has been to the innovation of poetic style and method. From the twenty-first century on, such multi-media expressions will likely continue to grow; this is a function of a Chinese aesthetic tradition pairing word and image and will continue to manifest in new and more inventive ways. This is an important book for Asian literary and art history studies and history collections

Author : Tony Barnstone,Chou Ping
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307481474

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The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry by Tony Barnstone,Chou Ping Pdf

Unmatched in scope and literary quality, this landmark anthology spans three thousand years, bringing together more than six hundred poems by more than one hundred thirty poets, in translations–many new and exclusive to the book–by an array of distinguished translators. Here is the grand sweep of Chinese poetry, from the Book of Songs–ancient folk songs said to have been collected by Confucius himself–and Laozi’s Dao De Jing to the vividly pictorial verse of Wang Wei, the romanticism of Li Po, the technical brilliance of Tu Fu, and all the way up to the twentieth-century poetry of Mao Zedong and the post—Cultural Revolution verse of the Misty poets. Encompassing the spiritual, philosophical, political, mystical, and erotic strains that have emerged over millennia, this broadly representative selection also includes a preface on the art of translation, a general introduction to Chinese poetic form, biographical headnotes for each of the poets, and concise essays on the dynasties that structure the book. The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry captures with impressive range and depth the essence of China’s illustrious poetic tradition.

Author : John A. Crespi
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780824833657

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Voices in Revolution by John A. Crespi Pdf

China’s century of revolutionary change has been heard as much as seen, and nowhere is this more evident than in an auditory history of the modern Chinese poem. From Lu Xun’s seminal writings on literature to a recitation renaissance in urban centers today, poetics meets politics in the sounding voice of poetry. Supported throughout by vivid narration and accessible analysis, Voices in Revolution offers a literary history of modern China that makes the case for the importance of the auditory dimension of poetry in national, revolutionary, and postsocialist culture. Crespi brings the past to life by first examining the ideological changes to poetic voice during China’s early twentieth-century transition from empire to nation. He then traces the emergence of the spoken poem from the May Fourth period to the present, including its mobilization during the Anti-Japanese War, its incorporation into the student protest repertoire during China’s civil war, its role as a conflicted voice of Mao-era revolutionary passion, and finally its current adaptation to the cultural life of China’s party-guided market economy. Voices in Revolution alters the way we read by moving poems off the page and into the real time and space of literary activity. To all readers it offers an accessible yet conceptually fresh and often dramatic narration of China’s modern literary experience. Specialists will appreciate the book’s inclusion of noncanonical texts as well as its innovative interdisciplinary approach.

Author : Maghiel van Crevel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004163829

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Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money by Maghiel van Crevel Pdf

Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money is a groundbreaking study covering a range of contemporary authors and issues, from Haizi to Yin Lichuan and from poetic rhythm to exile-bashing. Its rigorous scholarship, literary sensitivity and lively style make it eminently fit for classroom use.

Author : 明迪
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1936797240

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新华夏集, 当代中国诗选 by 明迪 Pdf

The most up-to-date anthology of contemporary Chinese poetry, translated by American poets and edited by the executive editor of the bilingual literary journal Poetry East West. Showcasing the achievement of Chinese poetry in the last twenty years, a time of tremendous literary ferment, this collection focuses on a diversity exciting poets from the mainland. The anthology includes interviews with the poets and a fascinating survey of their opinions on "Ten Favorite Chinese poets" and "Ten Best-Known Western poets in China."--Amazon.com.

Author : Qingping Wang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1556593309

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Push Open the Window by Qingping Wang Pdf

A poetic and powerful cultural exchange between the world's superpowers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733194908

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Trees Grow Lively on Snowy Fields by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michelle Mi-Hsi Yeh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300059477

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Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry by Michelle Mi-Hsi Yeh Pdf

Presents more than three hundred poems by sixty-six poets from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong translated into modern English.