{"id":3520,"date":"2016-07-13T09:30:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T01:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3520"},"modified":"2016-07-12T09:37:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T01:37:48","slug":"qiu-on-the-poems-of-inspector-chen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3520","title":{"rendered":"Qiu on the Poems of Inspector Chen"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"51ogn-PhntL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_<\/a>LARB <\/a>has published Qiu Xiaolong’s \u88d8\u5c0f\u9f99<\/span> Poems of Inspector Chen<\/em>, the poetry of the fictional hero of Qiu’s Detective Chen novels:<\/div>\n

Chen Cao started writing during his college years in the early eighties, a period sometimes described as a \u201cgolden\u201d one for modern Chinese poetry.\u00a0 After the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976, a considerable number of young people burst confidently onto the literary scene. But Chen is more of an accidental poet. While majoring in English and American literature, he studied with the well-known poet and critic Bian Zhilin (1910-2000), and handed in several pieces written as a sort of homework. With Bian\u2019s encouragement, Chen had them published in Poetry<\/em> and other magazines. In the meantime, he started translating T. S. Eliot and other Western poets, which added to his visibility in the circle.\u00a0 While doing research for his thesis on Eliot, he fell in love with a young librarian named Ling in Beijing Library. Some of his early poems turned out to be idealistic in spite of the modernist influence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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LARB has published Qiu Xiaolong’s \u88d8\u5c0f\u9f99 Poems of Inspector Chen, the poetry of the fictional hero of Qiu’s Detective Chen novels: Chen Cao started writing during his college years in the early eighties, a period sometimes described as a \u201cgolden\u201d … 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":[581,1725,1352,1049],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-UM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2440,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2440","url_meta":{"origin":3520,"position":0},"title":"Qiu Xiaolong & Jonathan Stalling at The Conversant","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"March 6, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Jonathan Stalling speaks with Qiu Xiaolong at TheConversant.org. 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