{"id":2829,"date":"2014-10-13T09:30:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T01:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2829"},"modified":"2014-10-08T22:39:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T14:39:17","slug":"insistent-voices-modern-chinese-poetry-at-asia-literary-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2829","title":{"rendered":"Insistent Voices Modern Chinese Poetry at Asia Literary Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The new Asia Literary Review <\/a>is hosting a feature on modern (I think they mean contemporary) Chinese poetry. Here’s an excerpt from the introduction by Zheng Danyi\u00a0\u912d\u55ae\u8863 (translated with Martin Alexander and Shirley Lee):<\/p>\n

For us, poetry wasn\u2019t just a social tool or a political weapon. We worked to create an independent literary movement, inspired by T. S. Eliot and other Modernists, and to form a new sense of beauty from Chinese and Western traditions. We wrote in the music of our own southern languages \u2013 and edited with an ear for Mandarin. A vernacular approach was therefore also important \u2013 what Coleridge called \u201cthe language of ordinary men\u201d. This had been a feature of China\u2019s New Culture Movement, which flourished from 1917 to 1919. It aimed, as we did, to build on the literary traditions of the past and to speak directly to a broad audience in its own language.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The feature includes new translations of old poems by Zheng along with Bei Dao \u5317\u5cf6, Duo Duo \u591a\u591a, Shu Ting \u8212\u5a77, Yang Lian \u694a\u7149, Gu Cheng \u9867\u57ce, Zhai Yongming \u7fdf\u6c38\u660e, Bai Hua \u67cf\u6a3a, Zhang Zao \u5f35\u68d7, and Chen Dongdong \u9673\u6771\u6771.<\/p>\n

Click the image above for the full feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new Asia Literary Review is hosting a feature on modern (I think they mean contemporary) Chinese poetry. Here’s an excerpt from the introduction by Zheng Danyi\u00a0\u912d\u55ae\u8863 (translated with Martin Alexander and Shirley Lee): For us, poetry wasn\u2019t just a … Continue reading →<\/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":[59,50,136,515,130,1469,1046,1471,127,1049,21,51,137,1470],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-JD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4555,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4555","url_meta":{"origin":2829,"position":0},"title":"Shieh on Zheng Xiaoqiong","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"May 15, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Last month was Poetry Month (T.S. 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