A Century of Modern Chinese Poetry : An Anthology / edited by Michelle Yeh, Zhangbin Li, and Frank Stewart.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Yeh, Michelle, editor.
• Li, Zhangbin, 1983- editor.
• Stewart, Frank, 1946- editor.

Language:

• Chinese
• English

Subjects (All):

• Chinese poetry.

Genre:

• Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 pages)

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2023]

Language Note:

Poems translated from Chinese.

Biography/History:

Michelle Yeh is Distinguished Professor of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of California, Davis, and author of Modern Chinese Poetry: Theory and Practice since 1917 and Essays on Modern Poetry from Taiwan. Zhangbin Li is professor of Chinese literature at Nanjing University and author of Sailing Inside Language: On the Prosody of Modern Chinese Poetry. Frank Stewart is emeritus professor of English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, founding editor of Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, and editor of The Poem Behind the Poem: Translating Asian Poetry.

Summary:

"This volume -- a completely overhauled and updated version of Michelle Yeh's 1992 classic 'Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry' -- brings together modern poetry from the Chinese-speaking world dating from the 1910s to the 2010s. Featuring the work of 85 poets from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore, it contains more than 280 poems that span the entire history of modern Chinese poetry. Poets include those regarded as canonical as well as some who have been newly 'discovered' or reevaluated in recent years, each selected for their distinctive voice and inimitable style. Also, for the first time, contemporary song lyrics are included as poetry. This diversity of perspectives, along with its geographic reach and expansive timeframe, makes the anthology a much-needed contribution to the study of Chinese poetry and world literature. With short biographies of the poets and a comprehensive introduction, 'A Century of Modern Chinese Poetry' is a critical resource for students, scholars, and general readers alike." -- Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

• The formative period : 1910s-1920s. Lu Xun (1881-1936) : Boer ; Autumn night ; Beggars
• Hu Shi (1891-1962) : Old crow (1 of 2) ; Dreams and poetry
• Guo Moruo (1892-1978) : Heavenly dog ; On top of Fudetate Yama ; Shanghai impressions
• Xu Zhimo (1897-1931) : By chance ; Sea melody ; Second farewell to Cambridge ; The train grips the tracks
• Wen Yiduo (1899-1946) : First emperor of the Qin Dynasty ; Dead water ; Perhaps (an elegy) ; Confession
• Li Jinfa (1900-1976) : The abandoned woman ; Words written on my self-portrait
• Fei Ming (1901-1967) : Vanity table ; Dream ; Street corner
• The first flowering of modern poetry : 1930s-1940s. Dai Wangshu (1905-1950) : My memory ; I think ; Improvised by Xiao Hong's tomb ; I run my mangled palm
• Feng Zhi (1905-1993) : Snake ; Sonnets (4 of 27)
• Ai Qing (1910-1996) : Dayanhe, my wet nurse ; Snow is falling on the land of China
• Bian Zhilin (1910-2000) : The organization of distance ; The round jewel box ; Fragment ; Untitled (1 of 5)
• He Qifang (1912-1977) : Prophecy ; Joy ; Autumn ; Cypress forest
• Xin Di (1912-2004) : Rhapsody ; The source of loneliness ; Scenery
• Ji Xian (1913-2013) : City in flames ; Dog barking at the moon ; Painter's studio ; Type B blood
• Chen Jingrong (1917-1989) : Spring of the logic-crazed
• Mu Dan (1918-1977) : Spring ; I ; Eight poems (3 or 8) ; Meditation
• Zheng Min (1920-2022) : Meeting in the evening ; She and the earth
• The modernist movement and surrealism : 1950s-1960s. Zhou Mengdie (1921-2014) : Aloneland ; On the ferry ; Under the wisdom tree
• Mu Xin (1927-2011) : Froth ; Slowness of the past ; After the sleigh incident
• Luo Fu (Lo Fu, 1928-2018) : Songs of Saigon (2 of 11) ; Song of everlasting sorrow ; Because of the wind
• Yu Guangzhong (Kwangchung Yu, 1928-2017) : If a war is raging far away ; Homesickness ; Lord, do not cross the river
• Shang Qin (1930-2010) : Giraffe ; Doves ; Electric lock ; The cat that enters through the wall ; Snow ; Chicken
• Ya Xian (b. 1932) : Salt ; Paris ; Diva ; The colonel ; Andante cantabile
• Zheng Chouyu (Wen-tao Cheng, b. 1933) : Mistake ; Pagoda ; Pure clarity ; Atayal tribe
• Chang Yao (1936-2000) : Lost manuscripts from the years of calamity (2 of 9) ; Such a man ; A field of fragrant grass
• Bai Qiu (1937-2023) : The wanderer ; A thousand roads, a thousand roots ; Public square
• Fang Qi (1937-2021) : Little boat ; Composition ; Angels
• Lin Ling (Helen Ong, b. 1938) : Untethered boat ; Non-modernist lyric ; Notes on spring renovations
• Xi Xi (Cheun Ying, 1938-2022) : My father's backpack ; Memorials to the throne ; My friend's cat
• Yang Mu (1940-2020) : Water's edge ; Jizi of Yanling hangs up his sword ; Let the wind recite ; Propositions of temporality ; Tale (in the meter of Metamorphosis II by Philip Glass) ; Cloud ship
• Underground poetry, nativism, and women's voices : 1970s-1980s. Huang Xiang (b. 1941) : Beast ; I ; The day is nearly over
• Ying Peian (Yeng Pway Ngon, 1947-2021) : On the operating table
• Bei Dao (b. 1949) : Declaration ; The answer ; Local accent ; The landscape above zero degrees
• Liang Bingjun (Ping-kwan Leung, 1949-2013) : Lotus link ; The old colonial building ; Papaya ; Traveling with a bitter melon
• He Furen (Ho Fuk Yan, b. 1950) : The baby girl in my family ; Pandemic psychology ; Sick ship
• Mang Ke (b. 1950) : Night above snowy ground ; Sunflower in the sun ; A man continues to age after death
• Duo Duo (b. 1951) : Craft - after Marina Tsvetaeva ; Northern night ; Residents ; Often ; Evensong
• Chen Yuhong (b. 1952) : Parenthesis ; At the beginning ; Tales no. 14: reset to zero
• Ling Yu (b. 1952) : A potted plant ; The Pacific Ocean ; Month of May ; Autumn in September ; Rivers and mountains
• Shu Ting (b. 1952) : Goddess peak ; Self-portrait
• Zhong Ming (b. 1953) : Chinese acrobatics: a hard chair (1 of 4) ; Dueling with Ruan Ji
• Chen Li (b. 1954) : The edge of the island ; War symphony ; Tango for the jealous ; Little deaths ; Adagio
• Luo Dayou (Ta-yu Lo, b. 1954) : Childhood ; The orphan of Asia ; Roiling red dust
• Yang Ze (Hsien-ching Yang, b. 1954) : Oh, my homeland is a mystical radio station ; Life isn't worth living ; Have no doubt
• The anti-sublime and multiculturalism : 1980s-1990s. Yu Jian (b. 1954) : Work no. 16 ; Thank you father ; The sound of falling ; Elephants of 1966
• Luo Zhicheng (b. 1955) : Bodhisattva ; A candle fell asleep in its flame ; Yelü Abaoji ; Desolate candy store (opening section)
• Wang Xiaoni (b. 1955) : Half of me hurts ; People waiting for the bus ; Inside white paper ; Very white moonlight
• Yang Lian (b. 1955) : Memorial to a tree at the street corner ; Island ; Baby girl ; The cry of cranes in Bassdorf
• Zhai Yongming (b. 1955) : The submarine's lament ; New swan lake ; Report on a child prostitute
• Bai Hua (b. 1956) : Expression ; Summer is still far away ; Last Emperor Li ; In the Qing Dynasty ; Reality
• Gu Cheng (1956-1993) : One generation ; Accessory to the crime ; Fiction ; Ghosts enter the city (2 of 8)
• Ouyang Jianghe (b. 1956) : Glass factory (1 of 5) ; Strawberry ; Crossing the square at dusk
• Zhang Shuguang (b. 1956) : Human work ; Ulysses ; Photographs of dying time
• Liu Kexiang (Ka-hsiang Liu, b. 1957) : Young revolutionary ; Hope ; Tropical rainforest ; What is indescribable about Mount Indescribable
• Wang Jiaxin (b. 1957) : Pasternak ; Paz in old age ; Oranges
• Sun Weimin (b. 1959) : Three potted plants and their master ; Spring 1985 ; Missing someone ; Peacetime
• Lü Dean (b. 1960) : Whale ; Thaw
• Walis Nokan (b. 1961) : Red flower ; Family genealogy VI: three generations ; Husband-gazing rock
• Chen Dongdong (b. 1961) : Horse in the rain ; Light the lamp ; Low bank
• Chen Kehua (Ko-hua Chen, b. 1961) : A strange tale of Nanjing Street ; Wedding vow ; Rain in Kyoto
• Cui Jian (b. 1961) : Fake monk ; A piece of red cloth ; Eggs under the red flag
• Han Dong (b. 1961) : As for great wild goose pagoda ; The side of me that is tender ; These last years ; Reading Simone Weil
• Jiaya (Boon-Swee Tan, b. 1962) : Homesickness ; Untitled ; One-act play on the subway
• Lu Yimin (b. 1962) : American women's magazines ; Sylvia Plath
• Wang Yin (b. 1962) : Thinking about a Czech film, but I can't remember the title ; Gifts from on high ; The evening of my life has come too late
• New lyricism and postmodernist experiments : The new millennium. Zhang Zao (1962-2010) : In the mirror ; Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai ; Conversation with Tsvetaeva (10 of 12) ; Drifting
• Xi Chuan (b. 1963) : Stargazing on Haergai ; Rereading Borges's poetry ; Notes on the mosquito
• Amang (b. 1964) : Supermarket ; Oh, if only one day my memory were good ; Ice
• Haizi (1964-1989) : Autumn ; Motherland (or dreams as horses) ; Facing the ocean, spring warms flowers open ; Spring, ten Haizis
• Hong Hong (Hung Hung, b. 1964) : A hymn to Hualian ; The last supper ; Homemade bomb ; The world
• Luo Feng (Lok Fung, Natalia Chan, b. 1964) : The flying coffin ; Days when I hide my corpse in a box
• Zang Di (b. 1964) : Spinach ; Butterfly-attracting flower ; The absolute aesthetics association ; Ashes primer
• Xu Huizhi (b. 1966) : Stranded humpback whale ; Fragrance ; There stands a deer ; My obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Lan Lan (b. 1967) : In my village ; Learning: the beautiful, the lustful ; Train, train
• Chen Dawei (Chan Tah Wei, b. 1969) : In Nanyang ; Departing with the crane
• Chen Mie (Chi Tak Chan, b. 1969) : Lo-fi ; Compulsive-shopping syndrome ; The ruined pier
• Fang Wenshan (Vincent Fang, b. 1969) : Jasmine Orange ; End the war: an elegy for the fallen ; Blue-and-white porcelain
• Yinni (b. 1969) : Earth god and poetry ; The edge of beauty
• Zhu Zhu (b. 1969) : South-of-Yangzi, a republic ; Duolun Road ; September, Madrid ; New Jersey on the moon
• Jiang Hao (b. 1971) : July 19, composed on the way to Five Finger Mountain ; What shape is the sea
• Duo Yu (b. 1973) : Poetry and life ; Silent knowledge ; Everything is under construction
• Wang Ao (b. 1976) : The crabs I once loved ; Quatrain 1 ; Quatrain 2 ; Quatrain 3 ; Quatrain 4
• Lin Wanyu (b. 1977) : The speed of blossoming ; Unprincipled
• Ye Mimi (b. 1980) : His days go by the way her years ; The more car the more far ; Two nights nine secrets - for turning twenty-nine
• Zheng Xiaoqiong (b. 1980) : Train ; Drama ; Middle-aged prostitutes.

Notes:

• Description based on print version record.
• Includes index.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780295751153
• 0295751150

OCLC:

1378825610