{"id":4060,"date":"2018-05-11T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T01:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4060"},"modified":"2018-05-07T09:28:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T01:28:05","slug":"mialaret-on-hai-zi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4060","title":{"rendered":"Mialaret on Hai Zi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hai<\/a>Writing at mychinesebooks.com<\/a>, Bertrand Mialaret offers a synopsis of the life and poetry of Hai Zi \u6d77\u5b50. <\/span>“Almost thirty years after his suicide, the poet Hai Zi remains celebrated in China,” it’s titled.<\/p>\n

Hai Zi, who committed suicide at age 25, remains one of the most celebrated poets in China especially with the younger generations. Some very creative years, 250 short poems, 400 pages of long poems, short stories, plays. His complete works were published in 1997 by his friend, the poet Xi Chuan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mialaret<\/span> also mentions the difference generations make in forming different poetic styles, which are born in some ways from the encounter of the personal with broader gyrations of history.<\/p>\n

He was not part of the group of \u201cmisty\u201d poets of the early 1980s, which were made famous by Beidao, Gu Cheng, Mangke, Yang Lian<\/a> \u2026 This group refuses the revolutionary \u201crealist\u201d tradition and poetry at the service of politics. Poetry is an individual creation, it is a mirror of oneself. The focus is on the image in the creative process even if it is accompanied by sometimes complex and obscure texts.<\/p>\n

The generation of Hai Zi is very different, it did not experience the re-education in the countryside, could go to university, knows the works of the world literature, the great movements of thought and all the \u201cisms\u201d (existentialism, surrealism, structuralism \u2026).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

Writing at mychinesebooks.com, Bertrand Mialaret offers a synopsis of the life and poetry of Hai Zi \u6d77\u5b50. “Almost thirty years after his suicide, the poet Hai Zi remains celebrated in China,” it’s titled. 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