what was all the fuss about? 451Appendix: A Chronological Bibliography
This bibliography includes everything from focused, partisan contri-
butions by the foremost polemicists to writings of broader scope and
greater critical distance that contain important passages on the debate.
Especially for the former category, it lays claim to a reasonable degree
of completeness. It stops in January 2002, when the Polemic “proper”
had been over for some time and was among the topics treated in a
state-of-the-field survey of Chinese literature at the end of the twenti-
eth century (#120).
Most entries appear in the previous two sections of this chapter.
There are a few scholarly essays toward the end of the list that don’t
feed directly into the above discussion but may be of interest for future
research. Entries are listed chronologically by year-month-(day), and
alphabetically by author names in transcription. Beyond the month of
publication, recorded in most Chinese books and journals, one cannot
ascertain the exact time of appearance of these items as precisely as
for newspapers and weeklies. Moreover, time between the completion
of manuscripts and their publication varies. If the following record is
therefore less than perfect, it still provides a reliable representation of
the metatextual and discursive events that constituted the Popular-
Intellectual Polemic.
1 1998-02 | Cheng Guangwei (ed) ܝ♰㓪,ljቕ᳜ⱘ䘫✻: бकᑈҷ᭛ᄺ
к㋏, 䆫℠ोNJ[A Portrait of Years Gone By: Literature of the Nineties,
Poetry Volume], ࣫Ҁ: 力Ӯ里ᄺ᭛⤂
2 1998-02 | Cheng Guangwei ♰ܝ,LJϡⶹ᠔㒜ⱘᮙ㸠Lj[Journey with
Unknown Destination], introduction to entry 1: 1-21 (earlier published
inljቅ㢅NJ1997-11: 69-75)
3 1998-02 | Hong Zicheng & Li Qingxi (eds) ⋾ᄤ䆮ǃᴢᑚ㽓Џ㓪,ljбक
ᑈҷ᭛ᄺк㋏NJ[Literature of the Nineties], ࣫Ҁ: 力Ӯ里ᄺ᭛⤂
4 1998-02 | Hong Zicheng ⋾ᄤ䆮,LJᘏᑣLj[Foreword to the Series], in
entry 1: 1-9
5 1998-03 | Yu Jian Ѣമ,LJ䆫℠П㟠ⱘ⹀Ϣ䕃: ݇Ѣᔧҷ䆫℠ⱘϸ㉏䇁㿔
ᑺLj[The Hard and Soft of the Tongue of Poetry: On Two Different
Directions in the Language of Contemporary Poetry], inlj䆫㋶NJ1998-1:
1-18 (reprinted in entry 12: 451-468)
6 1998-05 | Geng Zhanchun 㘓ऴ,LJϔഎ䆫ᄺϢ力Ӯᄺⱘݙᖗ䆎ѝLj
[An Inner Polemic of Poeticology {i.e. Poetics} and Sociology], inljቅ
㢅NJ1998-5: 77-81 (reprinted in entry 85: 268-277)
7 1998-09 | Hou Ma փ偀,LJᡦᚙᇐ㟈ϔ佪䆫ⱘ༅䋹Lj[Lyricism Leads to
a Poem’s Failure], inlj䆫㋶NJ1998-3: 150-154
8 1998-10-10 | Shen Haobo [Choushui] ≜⌽⊶,LJ䇕ᣓ “бकᑈҷ” ᓔ
⎂Lj[Who’s Fooling “the Nineties”], first published under pseudonym қ