Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money (Sinica Leidensia, 86)

182 chapter four the book lies open on the table rustling, just like the sound that fire makes «Notes» has the familiar elements ...

exile 183 Out on the street, the crowd is a forest on a giant billboard as silence roars I see the needle edge along growth ring ...

184 chapter four sense, can be seen to foreground exile as a specific category of alien- ation. To this reader, the fact that it ...

exile 185 revolting. Both readings tie in with the sense of dislodgment in the subsequent image of a drunk who travels. A consta ...

186 chapter four from any socio-political message it may or may not bring—or, in the “other words” that poetry is, even if froth ...

mind over matter, matter over mind 187 CHAPTER FIVE MIND OVER MATTER, MATTER OVER MIND: XI CHUAN Periodization entails simplific ...

188 chapter five Figure 5.1. Xi Chuan, 2000 (photograph by Maghiel van Crevel) ...

mind over matter, matter over mind 189 is radically different from his early work, I present a close reading of «Salute» that qu ...

190 chapter five work a return to Obscure Poetry anymore than Ouyang’s, Chen’s or Haizi’s. Just like their work, Xi Chuan’s poet ...

mind over matter, matter over mind 191 Image of a Poet in the Age of Money and Anti-Culture Xi Chuan’s image in the Chinese lite ...

192 chapter five relevance of traditional Chinese views of literature as well as orthodox Maoist poetics, summed up in the time- ...

mind over matter, matter over mind 193 The word translated as poor is ⏙䋿, explained in the Dictionary of Mod- ern Chinese (⦄ҷ∝䇁䆡 ...

194 chapter five ing imagery. All this goes to show that he has an independent mind and great courage. Lan’s representation of X ...

mind over matter, matter over mind 195 to this poem in his depiction of Xi Chuan as a noble, cultured spirit withstanding money’ ...

196 chapter five arbitrariness or chaos. By contrast, as we will see below, starting in the early 1990s Xi Chuan’s poetry freque ...

mind over matter, matter over mind 197 and aesthetically, especially in the more cultish quarters of the poetry scene, even if i ...

198 chapter five Indeterminacy operates at critical junctures in «Salute». Recalling the discussion of exile poetry in chapter F ...

mind over matter, matter over mind 199 poem (䭓䆫)—there are good reasons for calling it a prose poem.^15 We will return to this p ...

200 chapter five become progressively longer. Length adds to the text’s momentum, and part 1 serves as a springboard for part 2: ...

mind over matter, matter over mind 201 mechanism. The alternation of long and short works best if no two long stanzas are adjace ...