{"id":2189,"date":"2013-08-30T09:30:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T01:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2013-08-24T10:15:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T02:15:17","slug":"julia-lin-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2189","title":{"rendered":"Julia Lin Obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Julia <\/a>Julia Chang Lin, a scholar of Chinese literature who brought a forgotten generation of women poets in China and a new generation of post-war Chinese women poets to a western audience, died on Thursday, Aug. 1, of complications from neuroendocrine cancer in New York City. She was 85.
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\nAt Washington, she developed her skills as a writer and translator of poetry. She spoke Mandarin, Shanghainese, an Amoy dialect (her summer language),\u00a0English, Cantonese, French, Fukienese (her husband\u2019s native tongue), and a bit of Japanese. One of her teachers, Theodore Roethke, liked one of her poems, \u201cSong of the Crazy Monk,\u201d so much that he mailed it off to the prominent literary journal Botteghe Oscure, which published it. It was Julia\u2019s first publication. Her thesis advisor at UW was so impressed with her PhD thesis that he helped secure its publication as \u201cModern Chinese Poetry: An Introduction.\u201d
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\nDr. Lin made groundbreaking contributions to the field of modern and contemporary Chinese poetry. \u201cModern Chinese Poetry: An Introduction,\u201d completed shortly after the Nixon detente made visits to China possible, enabled her to go to China to gather poetic materials and small literary journals and produce pioneering scholarly\/critical studies of modern and contemporary Chinese poetry. Lin became friends with many of these poets, including Shu-Ting, who was persecuted during the \u201canti-spiritual pollution\u201d movement that was launched in 1983. Among the poets translated in her first book, was Ping Hsin and Lin Huiyin whose short lyric mini-poems were pioneering works in modern China. At Ohio University she helped inaugurate Chinese language courses and, in her courses and colloquiums, she was the one-person Asian Studies department, introducing students to \u201cThe Tale of Genji\u201d and \u201cJourney to the West.\u201d After retiring in 1998, she continued to champion the works of women writers in China. Her four books have been influential in bringing recognition to, and appreciation of, Chinese women poets from mainland China and Taiwan.
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\nShe is survived by a daughter, Maya, the artist who created the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and a son, Tan, a poet and English professor, both of New York City; a brother Ke-Heng of Beijing; a stepsister, Yining Zhang of Lawrenceville, N.J.; and three grandchildren, Ahn Churchouse Lin, Rachel Ming Wolf and India Lin Wolf.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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