Chinese poetry in times of mind, mayhem and money / / by Maghiel van Crevel.

• Author: Crevel, Maghiel van.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2008.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Sinica Leidensia, v. 86; Sinica Leidensia 86.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (536 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money is a groundbreaking contribution to scholarship, well-suited to classroom use in that it combines rigorous analysis with a lively style. Covering the period from the 1980's to the present, it is organized around the notions of text, context and metatext, meaning poetry, its socio-political and cultural surroundings, and critical discourse in the broadest sense. Authors and issues studied include Han Dong, Haizi, Xi Chuan, Yu Jian, Sun Wenbo, Yang Lian, Wang Jiaxin, Bei Dao, Yin Lichuan, Shen Haobo and Yan Jun, and everything from the subtleties of poetic rhythm to exile-bashing in domestic media. This book has room for all that poetry is: cultural heritage, symbolic capital, intellectual endeavor, social commentary, emotional expression, music and the materiality of language – art, in a word. Full text (Open Access)

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Chapter One Avant-Garde Poetry from China: Text, Context and Metatext -- Chapter Two True Disbelief: Han Dong -- Chapter Three Thanatography and the Poetic Voice: Haizi -- Chapter Four Exile: Yang Lian, Wang Jiaxin and Bei Dao -- Chapter Five Mind over Matter, Matter over Mind: Xi Chuan -- Chapter Six Fringe Poetry, But Not Prose: Xi Chuan and Yu Jian -- Chapter Seven Objectification and the Long-Short Line: Yu Jian -- Chapter Eight Narrative Rhythm, Sound and Sense: Sun Wenbo -- Chapter Nine The Lower Body: Yin Lichuan and Shen Haobo -- Chapter Ten Not at Face Value: Xi Chuan’s Explicit Poetics -- Chapter Eleven Desecrations? Han Dong’s and Yu Jian’s Explicit Poetics -- Chapter Twelve What Was All the Fuss About? The Popular-Intellectual Polemic -- Chapter Thirteen More Than Writing, As We Speak: Yan Jun -- Works Cited -- Index and Glossary.