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

122 chapter three Haizi’s poetry brings about a sacred (干೷) feeling, while being firmly rooted in the concrete world of humankin ...

thanatography and the poetic voice 123 like his own.^45 More importantly, a biographical reading is defensible if not self-evide ...

124 chapter three shocking. Notably, the questions I have raised about conflations of his life and work do not invalidate biogra ...

thanatography and the poetic voice 125 etry, with Wang Yichuan making an especially strong case.^48 Form and content are in agre ...

126 chapter three «Clasps a White Tiger and Crosses the Ocean» ᢅⴔⱑ㰢䍄䖛⍋⋟ Mother leaning toward magnificence ؒ৥Ѣᅣӳⱘ↡҆ clasps a whi ...

thanatography and the poetic voice 127 to mother remain unclear. An alternative reading proceeds from the image of mother holdin ...

128 chapter three wild flowers underground burn all the way up above ground Wild flowers burn onto your face burn you and hurt y ...

thanatography and the poetic voice 129 poetics that is widespread in contemporary China and because it lends itself to commemora ...

130 chapter three speaker doesn’t grant him, or the poem, any individuality. On that note, the line I plunge into this fire (☿דܹ ...

thanatography and the poetic voice 131 not least, the concept of the ancestral land (尢೑) and the fate of the nation is a favorit ...

132 chapter three in the small hours, 3 to 4 am,” the specificity of the moment before dawn contributing to the romantic image o ...

thanatography and the poetic voice 133 poems discussed above, «Spring» is closest to «Moved», but it has a stronger sense of urg ...

134 chapter three and with the additional caption “in dedication to the daughter of the dark night”:^63 The dark night rises fro ...

thanatography and the poetic voice 135 paradoxically, both in the fields and in the granaries, and the speaker claims to see the ...

136 chapter three That things would have been different had he not killed himself is another matter. His poetry and his poetics ...

exile 137 CHAPTER FOUR EXILE: YANG LIAN, WANG JIAXIN AND BEI DAO Exile and its manifestations in literature are of all times and ...

138 chapter four Figure 4.1. Yang Lian, 2004 (photograph by Song Zuifa) ...

exile 139 name of law and order in their native land—Duoduo as one of the first witnesses of the mayhem in Beijing to arrive in ...

140 chapter four Figure 4.2. Wang Jiaxin, 1992 (photograph by Pieter Vandermeer) ...

exile 141 The presence of poets in mainland-Chinese exile literature is visible in the 1990 revival of Today outside China, with ...