{"id":2344,"date":"2013-12-31T09:30:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T01:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2023-04-12T08:20:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T15:20:01","slug":"wai-lim-yip-in-chinese-literature-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2344","title":{"rendered":"Wai-lim Yip in Chinese Literature Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ou.edu\/clt\/03-01\/essay-wai-lim-yip.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ou.edu\/clt\/03-01\/images\/Yip-headshot-color-large.jpg?resize=480%2C313\" alt=\"Wai-lim Yip\" width=\"480\" height=\"313\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wai-lim Yip \u8449\u7dad\u5ec9 on his background and beginnings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While the poets in Hong Kong and in Taiwan shared the same frustration, the modernist writings that emerged from this frustration have different permutations. Hong Kong poets faced radicalized crisis of cultural identity and the concomitant culture industry that came with British colonization, whereas their Taiwan counterparts wrestled with the rule of the Kuomintang during a period that became known as the White Terror. Both discovered language strategies from Euro-American modernism and modified them through the lens of classical and contemporary Chinese poetry. I began in Hong Kong and matured in Taiwan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click the image above for the entire article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wai-lim Yip \u8449\u7dad\u5ec9 on his background and beginnings: While the poets in Hong Kong and in Taiwan shared the same frustration, the modernist writings that emerged from this frustration have different permutations. Hong Kong poets faced radicalized crisis of cultural &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2344\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[806],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-BO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2436,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2436","url_meta":{"origin":2344,"position":0},"title":"Chinese Literature Today","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"March 5, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The current issue of Chinese Literature Today features: Chinese Poets Writing in English (Qiu Xiaolong \u88d8\u5c0f\u9f99, Yun Wang, Wai-lim Yip \u8449\u7dad\u5ec9) Non-Chinese Poets Writing in Chinese (Jami Proctor-Xu, Denis Mair, Afaa Michael Weaver [translated by Lucas Klein]) Special features on Yu Jian \u4e8e\u575a and Wai-lim Yip Book reviews of Jacob\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Links&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ou.edu\/clt\/02-02\/images\/CLT_Issue5_Cover_6.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3551,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3551","url_meta":{"origin":2344,"position":1},"title":"Rothenberg on Pound &#038; Yip","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"September 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Jerome Rothenberg has posted his introduction to a collection of the poetry in English of Wai-lim Yip \u8449\u7dad\u5ec9, forthcoming next year. 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