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

382 chapter eleven My rendition of 䆡ࡼ ‘verb’ as word that moves is informed by Yu’s con- scious, literal employment of linguisti ...

desecrations? 383 literary skills yet continue to write—including political leaders—and, by extension, in types of literature sa ...

384 chapter eleven is not a bad thing for the poets and is indeed entirely reasonable and nec- essary. Something that is so comm ...

desecrations? 385 significance for the debate and it may even confuse the issues that we are faced with. He emphasizes that all ...

386 chapter eleven left China, but I don’t understand them. Look here, Chinese history has seen numerous great poets and many of ...

desecrations? 387 able phrase with a connotation of manipulative self-advancement.^47 Incidentally, Yu himself has always welcom ...

388 chapter eleven will mean the duplication of human beings. The Chinese language, on the other hand, by virtue of its special ...

desecrations? 389 Having been abroad myself, the feeling I get is that the West is a society that has already reached completion ...

390 chapter eleven ing force.^54 In Rupture, contemporary fiction writers and poets, several of them socially controversial, res ...

desecrations? 391 The critical angle that Yu Jian and Han Dong frequently take on con- temporaries that they see as corrupted ma ...

392 chapter eleven for being too ambitious and “squandering language,” instead of being meticulous about every single word:^61 T ...

desecrations? 393 with all the wrong poets. Yu portrays himself as an outsider from the beginning, for instance in Tang Xiaodu a ...

394 chapter eleven From Yu’s “Brown Notebook” (ẩⲂ᠟䆄), a common appellation for his short prose over the years, comes this passag ...

desecrations? 395 When discussing poetry, I’m in the habit of speaking in negative [ᥦ᭹ ᗻ] terms, such as what poetry is not, and ...

396 chapter eleven have been edited only carelessly if at all, or because he has no difficulty repeating himself. This happens, ...

desecrations? 397 Han Dong and Yu Jian sit at the Earthly end of the spectrum and ac- tively work against the Elevated. Yet, the ...

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what was all the fuss about? 399 CHAPTER TWELVE WHAT WAS ALL THE FUSS ABOUT? THE POPULAR-INTELLECTUAL POLEMIC In the final years ...

400 chapter twelve chapter contains a chronological bibliography of the Polemic, as a palpable record of its emergence and devel ...

what was all the fuss about? 401 to the series, reaffirming that 1989 was a turning point between two distinct periods in contem ...