{"id":3982,"date":"2018-03-02T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T01:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3982"},"modified":"2018-02-21T13:17:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T05:17:17","slug":"sixth-tone-on-an-inter-generational-spat-in-contemporary-chinese-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3982","title":{"rendered":"Sixth Tone on an Inter-generational Spat in Contemporary Chinese Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Image<\/a>In an article titled “Two Poets\u2019 War of Words Shows China\u2019s Yawning Generation Gap<\/a>,” Sixth Tone <\/em>reports on a bit of bickering between elder statesman of Chinese poetry Shi Zhi \u98df\u6307<\/span> (Guo Lusheng \u90ed\u8def\u751f) and relatively recent arriv\u00e9e Yu Xiuhua \u4f59\u79c0\u534e:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI watched a video<\/a> in which Yu Xiuhua said her ideal afternoon would involve drinking a coffee, reading a book, chatting a bit, and having a screw,\u201d Guo said. \u201cHow can a poet not spend a moment considering the fate of humanity, or thinking about the future of her nation? How can a poet from the countryside not speak of the miseries of rural life or their dreams of prosperity? How can they just forget everything?\u201d The elder poet concluded that Yu was abandoning her obligation to history, saying, \u201cIf we do not treat history responsibly, we will find ourselves mocked by it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yu soon struck back on her social media accounts. \u201cShizhi said I don\u2019t mention the miseries of rural life,\u201d she wrote<\/a>, \u201cbut I\u2019ve never felt rural life was all that miserable.\u201d Then a few days later, she added<\/a>: \u201cMy fault lies in being on the bottom rung of society and yet still insisting on holding my head up high. My other fault lies in my inability to expose those idiots who think they\u2019re superior to me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fortunately, there is still room for nuance in the arena of Chinese poets:<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of this latest controversy, the poet Liao Weitang [\u5ed6\u5049\u68e0]<\/em> rallied to Yu\u2019s defense<\/a>, noting that the misery of rural life permeates every detail of her work. \u201cOnly she doesn\u2019t weep over it or make accusations; she doesn\u2019t talk about how tragic her own life is,\u201d Liao said. \u201cRather, she is extremely stubborn, and she uses language to master her own world.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

In an article titled “Two Poets\u2019 War of Words Shows China\u2019s Yawning Generation Gap,” Sixth Tone reports on a bit of bickering between elder statesman of Chinese poetry Shi Zhi \u98df\u6307 (Guo Lusheng \u90ed\u8def\u751f) and relatively recent arriv\u00e9e Yu Xiuhua … 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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1966,705,1968,125,1967,1811],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-12e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3841,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3841","url_meta":{"origin":3982,"position":0},"title":"NYTimes on Yu Xiuhua’s “Unusual Path From Isolated Farm Life to Celebrity”","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"August 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"In \"A Chinese Poet\u2019s Unusual Path From Isolated Farm Life to Celebrity,\" the New York Times follows up on Yu Xiuhua \u4f59\u79c0\u534e: \u201cHer poems, among contemporary Chinese poems, are like putting a murderer among a group of respectable ladies,\u201d wrote Mr. Liu, the Poetry editor. \u201cEverybody else wears fancy clothes,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2017\/07\/26\/world\/26china-poet-1\/26china-poet-1-master768.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3705,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3705","url_meta":{"origin":3982,"position":1},"title":"Yu Xiuhua Documentary Still Tomorrow Trailer","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"April 28, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Still Tomorrow \u6447\u6447\u6643\u6643\u7684\u4eba\u95f4 a documentary about the life and work of Yu Xiuhua \u4f59\u79c0\u534e directed by Fan Jian \u8303\u4fed https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wq3iN2P4toI&feature=youtu.be","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/Wq3iN2P4toI\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4072,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4072","url_meta":{"origin":3982,"position":2},"title":"The Moving Target: Translation and Chinese Poetry at Leiden","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"May 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"On 1\u20132 June 2018, an international group of scholars will meet at Leiden University to discuss fifteen papers that bring together expert knowledge on poetry in Chinese and critical engagement with the notion of translation. 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