New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry

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This translation is by Denis Mair. This and the original poem appear on the Poetry Sky“天˜Web site. The poem was composed on the ...

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Chapter Ten Poetic Memory: Recalling the Cultural Revolution in the Poems of Yu Jian and Sun Wenbo John A. Crespi Certainly the ...

narrative patterns by invoking historical trauma, everyday resistance, or a metafictional self-awareness. A less readily observe ...

conception, both sets of texts can be called “poetic memoir”: brief, almost entirely autobiographical poems that use the generic ...

Poetic innovation beyond the menglong movement began with China’s Third Generation poets—a term devised to gather under one l ...

the corresponding, and widely read, subgenre of the Cultural Revolution memoir. Such memoirs are frequently structured in compli ...

the sort that not only identifies multiple layers of textual structure, but also discerns how such structure can generate specif ...

Yu Jian: Moment against Movement When considered in contrast to many narrativized versions of the Cultural Revolution experience ...

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from adult revolutionary participation in lines 2–5, to the play of young children in lines 6–7, and finally to the sexual activ ...

grammatically created in the earlier portions of the poem. Unlike the adults and children, the teenagers engage in a progressive ...

of the Cultural Revolution period—political activism, the suspension of everyday life, the hooliganry of teenagers—but in terms ...

A note of the surreal provides uneasy completion to a brief ten-line poem describing a Red Guard raid on the child’s home: a lit ...

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fixed disturbing scenes in his 我的12。我ï 1 ÇTÖ memory for a lifetime UÐ的 ̄FH< , qYV斗$³, My childhood: The Cultural qr戴¿Y的!G兵 ...

comprising mostly workers in large state-run factories. (Jiang 2002: 3–4) From the opening image of the poet seated naked indoor ...

neighborhood restaurant, and the size and location of a plant nursery. All these factual items are explicated in detail “outside ...

memorials designed to refer the reader to myriad elements of everyday life, to fix in place those fragments of experience signif ...