{"id":2873,"date":"2014-11-06T09:30:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T01:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2873"},"modified":"2014-11-04T10:15:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T02:15:28","slug":"critic-chen-chao-1958-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2873","title":{"rendered":"Critic Chen Chao, 1958-2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"3294438317\"<\/a>Poetry critic Chen Chao \u9648\u8d85 took his own life on October 31. Maghiel van Crevel writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Chen Chao made important contributions to scholarship and criticism. Starting from the early 1980s, he wrote numerous essays on individual oeuvres, themes, and texts, and on overarching trends in poetry and criticism.<\/p>\n

Among many other publications, Chen served as editor of the 1993 anthology \u300a\u4ee5\u68a6\u4e3a\u9a6c\uff1a\u65b0\u751f\u4ee3\u5377\u300b [With a Dream for a Horse: Newborn Generation Volume]<\/em>, part of the six-volume \u300a\u5f53\u4ee3\u8bd7\u6b4c\u6f6e\u6d41\u56de\u987e\u300b [A Look Back at Trends in Contemporary Poetry]<\/em> edited by Xie Mian \u8c22\u5195 and Tang Xiaodu \u5510\u6653\u6e21; and as editor-cum-author of \u300a20\u4e16\u7eaa\u4e2d\u56fd\u63a2\u7d22\u8bd7\u9274\u8d4f\u8f9e\u5178\u300b [A Critical Anthology of 20t-Century Chinese Explorative Poetry]<\/em>, an ambitious book in the genre in which each poem is accompanied by an individual commentary, first published in 1989 and substantially revised and expanded in 1999.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click on the image for the full post, with links to more information in Chinese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poetry critic Chen Chao \u9648\u8d85 took his own life on October 31. Maghiel van Crevel writes: Chen Chao made important contributions to scholarship and criticism. Starting from the early 1980s, he wrote numerous essays on individual oeuvres, themes, and texts, … 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":[1484,309],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-Kl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4693,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4693","url_meta":{"origin":2873,"position":0},"title":"Announcing publication of Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 29, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs We are pleased to announce publication of\u00a0Chinese Poetry\u00a0and Translation: Rights and Wrongs\u00a0(Amsterdam University\u00a0Press, 2019). 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