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