New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry

and Gu Cheng have been seen by their readers and critics as Rimbaudian child prodigies who perished, however, due to a fateful “ ...

“”, it absolutely is, I returned again to that city like a ghost, and met again some other ghosts. I wrote Xinjiekou, Xidan, Z ...

This page intentionally left blank ...

Chapter Nine Yan Li in the Global City Paul Manfredi Humanity can move itself deeply 有打的 Humanity can’t do any worse   ...

work, Yan’s work was markedly lighter, almost playful in what were anything but playful circumstances. This light, buoyant quali ...

contrast to literary fiction whose largely engineered “wounded” response was always more easily managed. Obscure poetry, as it w ...

China in 1985. Yan’s departure at the high point of drawing the literary lines of scrimmage meant that he kept his position as o ...

China today, was to provide a venue for writers who would likely have been squeezed out of the tight spaces established by emerg ...

Yan is also toying with the notion of the artificiality of the observer herself, for the vision that travels through the window ...

balloons are the salient case in terms of Yan Li’s painting. In a clever conceit, the balloons buoyancy contradicts their weight ...

and Child,” an earlier series, captures a kind of celebration of human- ity on superficial, which is to say structured (brick-li ...

oppositional relationship between the human and natural that fundamentally unravels in the contemplation of concepts born in his ...

his preface to the Chinese edition, these poems are meant to be read as “the ever revolving mirrors of a disco ball, reflecting ...

And fix up a few hours of war for fun €理‚ƒ„時的戰‡ˆw‰遣 Tomorrow {天 While smuggling peace to other planets 我向其Œ:球'Žx時 I’ll not be t ...

Fully ensconced in his environment, irrevocably built into its very material, the lyrical quality of Yan’s visual figures, as th ...

In this sequence, Yan’s subjects collapse, Dali-style, within the character- istically (for Yan Li) constructed alternatives to ...

The poem, an unbroken but clearly identifiable two-segment sequence, opens with the playfully audacious maneuver of anthropomorp ...

We now savor the nectar 的/0>¡ ！ of technology 整版整版的DE 34 在 67 的 8 · Video games transform a 的8= 9 >¡ ！ thousand yea ...

of the usually unintended outcomes of humanity’s own unwise decisions. We are our own nature and our task is to understand just ...

that matter, the poet himself. While many other writers’ works are quite deeply bound up with specific histories of the admitted ...