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

362 chapter ten and his declaration of the futility of travel through Utopia offer ad- ditional points of contrast with Maoist a ...

not at face value 363 trends of the early 1980s, especially on the Earthly side of the spec- trum. On the whole, however, while ...

364 chapter ten ...

desecrations? 365 CHAPTER ELEVEN DESECRATIONS? HAN DONG’S AND YU JIAN’S EXPLICIT POETICS Before anything else, I should remind t ...

366 chapter eleven cult of their own, over and above what Michelle Yeh calls their anti- cult behavior in reaction to the Elevat ...

desecrations? 367 [Good poetry requires] for the poem not to choose a fashion or a culture or a philosophy or a history or the W ...

368 chapter eleven we need first of all to concentrate and never be the least bit indolent, and then to vacate ourselves, just l ...

desecrations? 369 The most important thing in poetry is the feel of language... The feel of language is not an abstract form, bu ...

370 chapter eleven Literature and Art,” or in 1949, when the Maoist view of literature be- came government policy in the People’ ...

desecrations? 371 lar-Intellectual Polemic: note the derogatory use of intellectual in the passage cited below. In the same essa ...

372 chapter eleven between the regular squares, the carving included several flowers... That’s when I suddenly heard the sound o ...

desecrations? 373 Chinese culture at large and their historical context, since “Western” and “Chinese” usage may differ substant ...

374 chapter eleven a certain part of Chinese, while the soft side of Chinese has been main- tained through the spoken language. ...

desecrations? 375 tradistinction to the original act of naming (ੑৡ) and naming anew (䞡ᮄੑৡ), with the latter two notions denoting ...

376 chapter eleven The word translated as advance also means ‘progressive,’ with strong connotations of PRC political orthodoxy. ...

desecrations? 377 Yu thus emphatically situates expression of the poet’s life in a social context. Similarly, in their 1986 “Con ...

378 chapter eleven anything, that thing could only be expressed in this particular form. The entire sense of beauty in poetry is ...

desecrations? 379 Chinese human beings can only adopt the standpoint of Chinese human beings. Anything else falls outside their ...

380 chapter eleven haps even wants to give expression to unconstrained abnormalities and demands to be circulated and spread aro ...

desecrations? 381 began to “ascend” (Ϟछ) and see himself as being “higher” than the poem, as he became conscious of the heaven-g ...