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

42 chapter one Figures 1.4 and 1.5. Public occasions that definitely belong to literary history: Mang Ke and Bei Dao, founders o ...

avant-garde poetry from china 43 Figure 1.6. Page from Luo Yihe’s letter to Wan Xia, describing Haizi’s suicide. The second para ...

44 chapter one Figure 1.7. Manuscript of Yi Sha’s «Starve the Poets» (Yi 2003: 30+3) ...

avant-garde poetry from china 45 One reading of the snapshot-type pictures takes its cue from Zhao’s karaoke metaphor inasmuch a ...

46 chapter one of the Maoist discourse he seeks to question. From the mid-1980s on, when overt political messages have all but d ...

avant-garde poetry from china 47 poethood—whether as representing (traditional) cultural essence, or (modern) national salvation ...

48 chapter one readers than Xi Chuan or a typical poet’s poet like Che Qianzi doesn’t change this.^55 Questions of the type Whit ...

avant-garde poetry from china 49 ity, is socio-economic reductionism. Bourdieu recognizes this when he defines the literary fiel ...

50 chapter one Who Cares? Answering the wrong questions would be turning a blind eye to a de- monstrably thriving if somewhat se ...

avant-garde poetry from china 51 trait photographs aside, the historical person of the author appears in biographical notes, and ...

52 chapter one nition is as problematic for individual oeuvres a it is for larger trends and the significance of Han’s work in i ...

avant-garde poetry from china 53 concerns can be subsumed under topics similar to those explored by Xi Chuan. The work of all th ...

54 chapter one pily so. Fourth, as noted, this study doesn’t extend to poetry on the In- ternet, for the simple reason that I ha ...

avant-garde poetry from china 55 taken to task for being insufficiently Chinese, and for being “foreign” (໪೑ⱘǃ໪ᴹⱘ) and “Westerni ...

56 chapter one of Chinese literature as conducted in China and elsewhere, and to its translation.^64 Can Western studies of Chin ...

avant-garde poetry from china 57 coming and complimentary to the deprecatory and hostile, by “native” and “foreign” commentators ...

58 chapter one foreign scholar-translators of Chinese literature are still relatively few in number and thus exert considerable, ...

avant-garde poetry from china 59 the text to be realized in various ways in its encounter with a variety of readers. McDougall r ...

60 chapter one studies over the past several decades is a wonderful thing, most of all because of their current diversity and in ...

avant-garde poetry from china 61 the most influential high literary form of our day at one end,^73 and the clichéd, hostile imag ...