Dai, Wangshu, 15, 19–20, 25, 26n3,
49f, 63
Dali, Salvador, 157
Daoism, x–xii, 26n3, 39, 127,
134, 137
Darwin, Charles, 62, 128
Davis, Walter, 89, 91, 94, 98n4,
102n18
Day, Michael, 6–7, 114
death, the image of in poetry, 68,
69–72, 74, 77, 81, 83, 124–5,
128, 134f, 137, 139
delta blues music, ix
de Man, Paul, 35
diaspora, 32, 36, 46
Dragon of Cold Times, 216–17
Du, Fu, 25, 191
Duo, Duo, 132
Eliot, T. S., ix, xiii, and “Tradition
and the Individual Talent,” xii
epic and antiepic, 69, 80f
Epoch Poetry Club (Chuang shiji),
48f, 63
ethnicity and ethnic representation,
9, 11–12
exile as a motif in poetry, 31, 32,
34–6, 65, 67, 74, 79, 81,
124–8, 131–3, 141
Existentialism, 69
Felman, Shoshana, 102n17
“femininity” and poetry, 105, 109,
111, 113, 114, 115, 118
Feng, Zhi, 15
free verse, 30, 50
Frost, Robert, 126
Fussell, Paul, 170, 179
Gao, Xingjian, 10
Gide, André, 73
globalism and the global city as
metaphor, 146, 149, 153, 158,
161, 162nn5, 6
“glocal” and “grobalism,” 146, 162n6
Grange, Joseph, 99n6
Greece, 26n3
Gu, Cheng, 5, 123–43 passim, and
the exile motif, 124–8, 131–3,
141, as a fairytale poet, 123–4,
125f, 135f, 143n13, and the
image of the city, 123, 125,
127–34, 139, 140–1, 142nn6, 7,
142–3n9, 143n10, and the
image of the ghost, 123, 125,
128–32, 134–6, 139–41, 142n5,
143nn11, 14, and murder/
suicide, 123, and nature,
125–30, 131, 137, 141n1,
142nn2, 3, 143nn9, 13, 15
Guan, Guan, 48
Guo, Moruo, 15
Guomindang (GMD) or
Nationalists, 3, 45, 47f, 51, 53,
60, 63, 65, 67fHa, Jin, 10
Haizi, 141n1
Han dynasty, 42
Han, Dong, 190, 194f
Han, Shan, xi, xii, xiii, 2
He, Jipeng, 30
He, Qifang, 50, 63
Heidegger, Martin, 71
history and poetry, 47, 50, 51, 53,
57–60, 62, 64, 64n2, 65, 67,
69–72, 75, 77, 80, 82, 84,
165–71, 173–5, 179–80,
182
Hockx, Michel, 202–3
Hong, Suli, 101n13
Hou, Ji, 119
Hsia, Yü, seeXia Yu
Hu, Jintao, 208–9
Hu, Shi, 15, 17–18, 20–1, 25f, 44, 147
Hua, Qiang, 206
Huang, Yibing, 5
Hugo, Victor, 141Illiterate, 215
“intellectual poets”, 6, 185–95,
197–9, 200n1234 Index