Chinese Poetic Modernisms

Paul Manfredi, Ph. D. Indiana University, is currently Professor of Chinese and Chair of Chinese Studies Program at Pacific Lutheran University. His recent book is Modern Poetry in China: A Visual-Verbal Dynamic, Cambria Press, 2014. Christopher Lupke, Ph. D. Cornell University, is Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies and Chair of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta. His recent publications include The Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien: Culture, Style, Voice, and Motion, Cambria Press, 2016, and translations of Xiao Kaiyu in Chinese Literature Today and Eleven Eleven.

Contents

List of Figures

Contributors



Introduction

 Paul Manfredi and Christopher Lupke



part 1: Toward an Origin of Chinese Poetic Modernisms

1 The Origins and Historical Development of the Modernist Poets

 Lan Dizhi 蓝棣之, translated by Paul Manfredi



2 From Du Fu to Rilke and Back: Feng Zhi’s Modernist Aesthetics and Poetic Practice

 Géraldine Fiss



3 Drama-tic Synthesis: Time, Memory, and History in the Writings of the Nine Leaves Poets

 Yanhong Zhu



4 The Classical Echo in Chinese Poetic Modernism

 Dian Li



part 2: Modernist Poetry from Taiwan

5 Xia Yu and the Modernist Tradition in Taiwan

 Michelle Yeh



6 Yu Guangzhong’s Modernist Spirit: From In Time of Cold War to Tug of War with Eternity

 Chen Fangming, translated by Thomas Moran



7 Li and Modernism: The Development of a Poetry Journal

 Ruan Meihui, translated by Yvonne Jia-Raye Yo and Paul Manfredi



part 3: Bridging Borders in Contemporary Poetry

8 The Poetics of Exile: The Cases of Shang Qin and Bei Dao

 Nikky Lin



9 National Myth and Global Aesthetics: Reading Yeats alongside Chinese Poetic Modernism

 Christopher Lupke



10 Measure Words Not for Measure: A Linguistic Experiment in Modern Chinese Poetry

 Lisa Lai-ming Wong



part 4: Reconceptualizations of Poetry in the Post-Mao Era

11 Network Analysis as a Modernist Intervention: The Case of Chinese Poetry Readings

 Nick Admussen



12 Modernist Waves: Yang Lian, John Cayley, and the Location of Global Modernism in the Digital Age

 Jacob Edmond



13 Annotating the Aporias of History: The “International Style,” Chinese Modernism, and World Literature in Xi Chuan’s Poetry

 Lucas Klein



14 Modernist Literati: Abstract Art of Contemporary Chinese Poets

 Paul Manfredi



Bibliography

Index