Contents
Foreword ixAbout the Contributors xviiOne Introduction: Toward a Chinese
Lyrical Modernity 1
Christopher LupkeTwo “There Are no Camels in the Koran”: What Is
Modern about Modern Chinese Poetry? 9
Michelle YehPart I Contemporary Poetry of Taiwan
Three Zheng Chouyu and the Search for Voice
in Contemporary Chinese Lyric Poetry 29
Christopher LupkeFour The View from the Buckwheat Field:
Capturing War in the Poetry of Ya Xian 47
Steven L. RiepFive To the Heart of Exile: The Poetic Odyssey
of Luo Fu 65
John BalcomSix Steward of the Ineffable: “Anxiety-Reflex” in/as
the Nature Writing of Liu Kexiang (Or: Nature
Writing against Academic Colonization) 85
Nick KaldisSeven Opposition and Adaptation in the Poetry of
Zhai Yongming and Xia Yu 105
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