New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry

not just concrete delineations, but transitional spaces that can be spiritual as well. For example, a typical home in northern C ...

Jiao Tong observes that the poem, while exposing the desire on the speaker’s part for the nomadic existence, indicates that he “ ...

forth across the border on the other. And it is in this space that the drinking and singing might occur. Wai-leung Wong mentions ...

By the time of Zheng Chouyu, whose maturation coincided with the end of the civil war and the retreat of the Nationalists to Tai ...

the Chinese critic Shen Qi has termed it (Shen 1995: 247–249), that comes from the double diaspora in which the poet lives. Read ...

Chapter Four The View from the Buckwheat Field: Capturing War in the Poetry of Ya Xian Steven L. Riep During the mid-to late-195 ...

between 1957 and 1962 offer a timely commentary on contemporary events and a subtle attack on government policy. Ya Xian belongs ...

United States to study at the University of Wisconsin and earned a master’s degree in East Asian Studies in 1977. Ya returned to ...

Although an influential editor and literary historian, Ya Xian’s greatest influence has been through his poetry. This may seem s ...

unhappiness” (Ya 1981b: 239). Ya’s work frequently references Christian religious symbolism including Jesus Christ, angels, mini ...

52 Steven L. Riep the early deaths of children, young fifteen-year-old poplars yesterday’s skirt cannot be worn today Broken win ...

Capturing War in the Poetry of Ya Xian 53 suddenly lose their country’s proper dignity” ef們¿ 的父a... (Á然失ÄÅÆ們ÇÈÉ有的Ê() from their ...

54 Steven L. Riep line 5 that his mother was killed in battle. We do not see the mother or her corpse, but instead see a chair b ...

Capturing War in the Poetry of Ya Xian 55 that they mark the graves of unknown combatants or civilians, reminding us of the impe ...

At first glance, the poem appears to have little to do with war. Ya Xian employs a common structure in all three stanzas that fo ...

flowers symbolize death and the buckwheat fields become the site of death, representing battlefields or villages torn by war. We ...

58 Steven L. Riep Malmqvist 2001: 207). Bridging the historical significance of the first stanza and the quotidian issues raised ...

Capturing War in the Poetry of Ya Xian 59 have died that her death has become insignificant and may, in fact, eventually be forg ...

60 Steven L. Riep “too tired to wait and expect.” The concluding lines amplify the sense of hopelessness by noting that angels h ...

Capturing War in the Poetry of Ya Xian 61 anticommunist literature promoted by the government and take poetry in a new direction ...