{"id":4581,"date":"2019-06-17T20:30:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T12:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4581"},"modified":"2019-06-01T01:55:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T17:55:31","slug":"shaw-on-haizi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4581","title":{"rendered":"Shaw on Haizi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“The life and death of Chinese poetry\u2019s mystical martyr<\/a>“<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As part of their poetry month feature, Tristan Shaw wrote for <\/a>SupChina<\/a><\/em> on Haizi <\/a>\u6d77\u5b50:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between 1984 and his death, Hai Zi is estimated to have written two million words worth of work, spanning lyrics, epics, and verse dramas. For all his output, however, Hai Zi\u2019s poems attracted little attention from his contemporaries. There is still debate today over his mental state, and why he decided to commit suicide, but one theory might have been his lack of success. Some have pinned his suicide on an idealization of death; others believe, as his final notes indicate, that he suffered from delusions. Another factor might have been a meeting with his former student; Hai Zi was greatly upset when he learned that his old flame was married and planning to move to the United States.<\/p>

At any rate, in the aftermath of Hai Zi\u2019s suicide, his friends Luo Yihe \u9a86\u4e00\u79be<\/em> and Xi Chuan \u897f\u5ddd<\/em> helped to spread his work. Posthumous publications of Hai Zi\u2019s work in the 1990s\u00a0earned him a cult following, with some fans considering him a martyr to poetry. Critics embraced him, scholars studied him, and foreigners translated him. In 1990, Xi Chuan prophesied that \u201cthe death of Haizi the poet will become one of the myths of our time.\u201d For his young Chinese fans, who still follow in his path and makes pilgrimages to the places connected to him, Hai Zi has become a mystical, legendary figure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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As part of their poetry month feature, Tristan Shaw wrote for SupChina on Haizi \u6d77\u5b50: Between 1984 and his death, Hai Zi is estimated to have written two million words worth of work, spanning lyrics, epics, and verse dramas. 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