Index
Ai, Qing, 15
Allen, Joseph, 142n8, 143n9
An, Qi, 214
“ancient styles” (of Chinese
poetry), 17
anxiety, 85f, 92–4, 96–7, 99n5,
101n13, 103n22
Arab, 9
Artisan of Flowery Rocks, 201
Auden, W. H., 50, 126, 128
avant-garde Chinese poetry, 202–6,
209f, 213–17
Baudelaire, Charles, 33, 140–1
Bei, Dao, 132, 145f, 148, 199
Bei, Ling, 120n3
Berlin, 130–1
Bian, Zhilin, 21
Bing, Xin, 15
black-faced spoonbill, 88, 100n9
Blue Butterfly Purple Lilac, 211–13
Blue Stars, 68
Bo, Juyi, 75
Book of Songs(shijing), 119, 191
Booth, Allyson, 61–2
Borges, Jorge Luis, 9, 10
Bottomore, Tom, 70
Bourdieu, Pierre, 204–5
Breton, André, 72
Browning, Robert, 15
buckwheat, images and symbolism
of, 47, 51, 53, 55ff, 60
Buddhism or Zen, x, xi, xiv,
Samadhi in, x
Camels, 9
Campbell, Thomas, 15
Canada geese, ix, 2
Cao, Wenxuan, 200n3
Chang, Jian, 76
Chase, Cynthia, 44f
Chen, Dongdong, 187, 197
Chen, Li, 22–4, 25
Chen, Sihe, 188ff
Chen, Yizhi, 29
Chen, Zhongyi, 201–2
Cheng, Ch’ou-yü, seeZheng Chouyu
Cheng, Guangwei, 6, 185, 187
Chiang, Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi),
3, 33
Chineseness, 9, 10–14, 16, 29–30,
64, 65, 74, 125
Chiu, Julie, 31, 40
Chow, Rey, 11–12
Chu, Ge, 48
Chunshu, 214
cior Song ci, 25, 44
circular structure in poetry, 63–4
Classical Poetry, 9–26 passim, the
fetishization of, 16
contemporary Chinese poetry, and
allusion, 47, and “the city,” 5,
history of, 1–2, and the internet,
6–7, 201–18 passim, in
mainland China, 5–7, in
Taiwan, 3–5, 12, and war, 3–4,
32–3, 64n2, 67f, 70, 81, and
47–64 passim
Coca-cola or Coke, 157–8
Crescent School, 21
Crespi, John, 6
Cronon, William, 89
Crosby, Alfred W., 86
Culler, Jonathan, 34
Cultural Revolution, 137, 139–40,
165–71, 174–5, 177, 179–80