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

2 chapter one the tragedy of the official whose advice goes unheeded by the ruler. The ruler’s failure to appreciate his servant ...

avant-garde poetry from china 3 acute concern, but such speculation and the limits of living memory aside, it is a fact that in ...

4 chapter one guages: Guo Moruo, Wen Yiduo, Xu Zhimo, Bing Xin, Li Jinfa, Bian Zhilin, He Qifang, Feng Zhi, Dai Wangshu, Ai Qing ...

avant-garde poetry from china 5 indeed that of the individual word. The mark this left on the Chinese language as it was spoken ...

6 chapter one 䆚䴦ᑈ) were rusticated to learn from peasants and factory workers instead. This drive at reeducating the urban youth ...

avant-garde poetry from china 7 official scenes and their subsets—regional, gendered, stylistic, medi- al—to varying degrees, ra ...

8 chapter one tertain seriously conflicting visions of literature and politicians have the power and claim the right to interfer ...

avant-garde poetry from china 9 erary historiography as well as in poetry’s general impact, domestic and international. In this ...

10 chapter one first also called experimental (ᅲ偠) and explorative (᥶㋶)—has out- shone orthodoxy in the eyes of audiences in Chi ...

avant-garde poetry from china 11 that beyond its institutional connotations it can also refer to aesthetic matters. This ambigui ...

12 chapter one institutional distinctions have become blurred. Little remains of the antagonism that made them incompatible and ...

avant-garde poetry from china 13 Context: Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money Let’s return for a moment to the notions of text, co ...

14 chapter one Mayhem refers to the violence of June Fourth and its aftermath. For the atmosphere on the poetry scene, June Four ...

avant-garde poetry from china 15 in high and popular culture and consumables of every kind, and has had to reposition itself in ...

16 chapter one the early 1970s. At the end of the decade, together with Mang Ke and painter Huang Rui, Bei Dao was the driving f ...

avant-garde poetry from china 17 down-to-earth semantics, with Han Dong as its driving force and con- tributors from all over th ...

18 chapter one ҷ), often actively propagated or “stir-fried” (♦԰) by their propo- nents to ensure coverage in criticism and lite ...

avant-garde poetry from china 19 borders and elsewhere. Meanwhile, inside China the cultural purge that had started in the summe ...

20 chapter one with a public impact that could compare to that of journals like Today or Not-Not, or of Xu Jingya’s “Grand Exhib ...

avant-garde poetry from china 21 At around the same time, roughly in 1999-2000, the poetry scene ac- quired a new dimension as i ...