New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry

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Part II Contemporary Poetry of Mainland China

Eight The Ghost Enters the City: Gu Cheng’s

Metamorphosis in the “New World” 123

Yibing Huang

Nine Yan Li in the Global City 145

Paul Manfredi

Ten Poetic Memory: Recalling the Cultural

Revolution in the Poems of Yu Jian and

Sun Wenbo 165

John A. Crespi

Eleven Naming and Antinaming: Poetic Debate

in Contemporary China 185

Dian Li

Twelve Online Avant-Garde Poetry in China Today 201

Michael Day

Bibliography 219

Index 233

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