Full Description
This volume of fourteen essays explores Chinese poetic modernism in all its facets, from its origins in the 1920s through 21st century manifestations. Modernisms in the plural reflects the complexity of the ideas and forms which can be associated with this literary-historical term. The volume's contributors take a variety of focus points, from literary groups such as "9 Leaves" or "Bamboo Hat," to individuals such as modernist sonneteer Feng Zhi , or Taiwan experimentalist Xia Yu (Hsia Yu), and Hong Kong modernist Leung Ping-kwan , to non-biographically oriented chapters concerning modernist language, poetry and visual art, among other issues. Collectively, the volume endeavors to present as complete a picture of modernist practice in Chinese poetry as possible.
Contents
ContentsList of FiguresContributorsIntroductionPaul Manfredi and Christopher Lupkepart 1: Toward an Origin of Chinese Poetic Modernisms1 The Origins and Historical Development of the Modernist PoetsLan Dizhi , translated by Paul Manfredi2 From Du Fu to Rilke and Back: Feng Zhi's Modernist Aesthetics and Poetic PracticeGeraldine Fiss3 Drama-tic Synthesis: Time, Memory, and History in the Writings of the Nine Leaves PoetsYanhong Zhu4 The Classical Echo in Chinese Poetic ModernismDian Lipart 2: Modernist Poetry from Taiwan5 Xia Yu and the Modernist Tradition in TaiwanMichelle Yeh6 Yu Guangzhong's Modernist Spirit: From In Time of Cold War to Tug of War with EternityChen Fangming, translated by Thomas Moran7 Li and Modernism: The Development of a Poetry JournalRuan Meihui, translated by Yvonne Jia-Raye Yo and Paul Manfredipart 3: Bridging Borders in Contemporary Poetry8 The Poetics of Exile: The Cases of Shang Qin and Bei DaoNikky Lin9 National Myth and Global Aesthetics: Reading Yeats alongside Chinese Poetic ModernismChristopher Lupke10 Measure Words Not for Measure: A Linguistic Experiment in Modern Chinese PoetryLisa Lai-ming Wongpart 4: Reconceptualizations of Poetry in the Post-Mao Era11 Network Analysis as a Modernist Intervention: The Case of Chinese Poetry ReadingsNick Admussen12 Modernist Waves: Yang Lian, John Cayley, and the Location of Global Modernism in the Digital AgeJacob Edmond13 Annotating the Aporias of History: The "International Style," Chinese Modernism, and World Literature in Xi Chuan's PoetryLucas Klein14 Modernist Literati: Abstract Art of Contemporary Chinese PoetsPaul ManfrediBibliography Index
