New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry

in the 1960s was as rare and valued as the remembrance of it is for the poet more than thirty years later. Indeed, the vision of ...

Revolution era, a span of time whose subterranean influence on the present is equaled only by the current regime’s resistance to ...

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Chapter Eleven Naming and Antinaming: Poetic Debate in Contemporary China Dian Li Time: April 16 to 18, 1999; Place: Pan Feng  ...

media, literary and otherwise, seeing an opportunity not merely in the interest of poetry, offered a helping hand. As a result, ...

clear rupture from the spirit of Misty Poetry even though intellectual poets as a whole often demonstrate, more than any other p ...

Minjianhas long existed as a common linguistic sign and as a literary concept. Minjian wenxuehas been used in the twentieth cent ...

applications and its signifying instability, of which even Chen himself is acutely aware. He writes, “Minjian” is not a historic ...

poetic concept become a focused effort, resulting, no doubt, from the necessity of the debate. Numerous poets and critics on bot ...

explore the elasticity of minjianas a signifier so as to establish a range of its signifieds approximating a new poetics separat ...

experience pq, things that are fundamental and permanent. Ideologies always use and distort common sense, but after all the dust ...

between Chen Sihe and Yu Jian in their identical public pleas for the restoration of minjianin contemporary Chinese literature. ...

the state power and mainstream cultures a sort of “theoretical poetics,” we may call this different perspective on writing a kin ...

true to this mission, poetry must locate itself on the coordinates of the traditional (read: an essential Chineseness emptied of ...

uncorrupted original state. Yu Jian’s use of regional language is actually singular—the examples are all from the Yunnan regiona ...

what constitutes the colloquial and the written within one language, a question in which Yu Jian shows hardly any interest. Inst ...

The difference between the minjianpoet and the intellectual poet regarding language resources, however, goes far beyond what con ...

unlike the minjianpoet who is infatuated with regional languages and ill-defined colloquial language, the intellectual poet loca ...

many of the views voiced during the debate are not really new, either to critical theory or in the context of modern Chinese poe ...

Chapter Twelve Online Avant-Garde Poetry in China Today Michael Day Net Servers  On a silver screen 光 A crowd of young men a ...