The Flowering of Modern Chinese Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from the Republican Period 9780773599444
A collection of early twentieth-century vernacular poetry that foreshadows the emergence of the modern Chinese nation.
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English Pages [449] Year 2016
Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Translators' Preface
Introduction: The Making of Modern Chinese Poetry in the Twentieth Century
PART 1: PIONEERS
Introduction
Hu Shi
Thought
Dream and Poem
Liu Dabai
Turtle
Tracks of Tears 21
Spring in the Air
Autumn Evening on the River
Xu Yunuo
A Child
As the Sun Slides Down behind the Mountain
The Cage of Reality
If I Weren't Such a Coward
Conflagration
Lu Xun
Dreams
Humanity and Time
The God of Love
Guo Moruo
A Night Walk through Jurimatsubara
Snow on the Emei Mountains
A Confrontation with the Moon
Taking All by Storm
The Iron Virgin
Bing Xin
No Forgetting
A Token of Remembrance
Myriad Stars 10, 28, 48, 95
Spring Rivulets 24, 25, 33, 66, 105, 112, 118, 153, 169, 182
Paper Boats
Thoughts of Love
Don't Trample This Flower
After the Rain
Liu Yanling
Sailor
Ye Shaojun
A Small Fish
Zheng Zhenduo
Distraction 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 12
Zhu Ziqing
Annihilation
PART 2: FORMALISTS
Introduction
Xu Zhimo
On Hearing the Ritual Chant of Repentance at Tianning Temple, Changzhou
The Paradise of the Poor
Beggar, It Serves You Right!
Sayonara
Beside a Mountain Path
Coincidence
I Cannot Tell
The Rebirth of Spring
Dusk: Six Views from a Car Window
Acknowledging Sin
The Oriole
Farewell to Cambridge
On the Train
Wandering Cloud
Go
Wen Yiduo
A Gathering of Chrysanthemums
Pondering
A Little Brook
Red Beans 9, 10, 14
The Laundryman's Song
Stagnant Water
Perhaps: An Elegy
The Last Day
I Wanted to Come Home
The Deserted Village
One Phrase
Statement under Oath
Silent Night
Zhu Xiang
The Pawnbroker
Bury Me
Shao Xunmei
The Serpent
Sweet Dream
May
The Soul of Shanghai
Chen Mengjia
An Old White Russian
Spring Landscape with a Small Temple
Shen Congwen
Panegyric
I Delight in You
Fang Lingru
Sailing Past Zhenjiang Pavilion
A Stone
Fleeting Vision
Feng Zhi
Snake
Sonnet 1: Deep Down We Are Preparing
Sonnet 2: Whatever We Can Shed
Sonnet 4: Edelweiss
Sonnet 5: Venice
Sonnet 12: Du Fu
Sonnet 16: We Stand on a Lofty Mountain Peak
Sonnet 18: Occasionally We Have Spent an Intimate Night
Sonnet 26: We Tread Our Daily Path
Sonnet 27: From a Stretch of Formless, Overflowing Water
Wu Xinghua
In Dedication 1
PART 3: SYMBOLISTS
Introduction
Li Jinfa
Casting Her Aside
Cherished Desires
Yao Pengzi
Your Face
Lin Huiyin
A Smile
Do Not Forget
Fei Ming
Assorted Poems 1, 3
The Dressing Table
A Pot of Flowers
Street Corner
He Qifang
To a Friend at the End of the Year
Autumn
Beneath the Moon
Cypress Grove
A Prophecy
Night Scene (i)
The Clouds
Our History Is Rushing Forward (i)
North China Is Ablaze (iv): Cities
Dai Wangshu
Rainy Lane
Homesick for the Sky
My Memory
Soon Old Age Arrives
A Fly in Autumn
Come Here to Me
Thoughts of a Wayfarer
Village Girl
White Butterfly
With My Injured Hand
Inscribed on a Prison Cell Wall
To Endure as a Witness (ii)
Impromptu: At the Tomb of Xiao Hong
Bian Zhilin
A Demon's Serenade
Cast to the Earth
Let the Current Take It
A Friend and Cigarettes
Disjointed Lines
Untitled No. 1
Untitled No. 4
Untitled No. 5
Train Station
The First Lamp
Lin Geng
May
Mist at Twilight
Night
Li Guangtian
Window
Crossing the Bridge
Ji Xian
To Maybe Man
Burning City
Autumn on the River
The Star-Snatcher
The Lost Telescope
Bird Variations
A Locust Leaf
Pipesmoking Psychoanalysis
Gold Gate Sorghum
The Death of Aphrodite
Incompletion: One
Qin Zihao
Desert Wind
Inkfish
Sunflower
Hair
PART 4: "PEASANTS AND SOLDIERS" POETRY
Introduction
Yin Fu
Metropolis at Dusk
Feng Xuefeng
Qingming Festival
Songs of Spring (ii)
A Poem from the Mountain
The Song of Soul Mountain
Tian Jian
Song of the Hill Country
from She Too Will Kill
One Rifle, One Zhang Yi
Zang Kejia
The Old Horse
The Rickshaw Puller
Workmen Resting at Noon
Refugees from Famine
The International Cemetery
A Goddess
The Top
The Execution Ground
Home Leave
A Grave
Stagnant Water
An Arrest
Ai Qing
Diaphanous Night
Dayanhe
Old Man
Beggars
The North
The Street
He Dies the Second Time
Autumn Morning
The Wilds
A Pond in Winter
Burdens
Gambling Men
A Young Man's Journey
On a Chilean Cigarette Package
Wang Yaping
Winter in the City
To Pawn an Arm
Before the Troops Marched Off
Ding Ling
from Yan'an in July
Zou Difan
Trekking North
Five Short Poems, 1, Rickshaw
Wang Tongzhao
The Battle Hymn of Shanghai, I
A Long
Old Soldier
Gao Lan
Elegy for My Daughter Sufei
Liu Jia
Governor Yan Xishan's Collector of the Grain Tax
PART 5: THE NINE LEAVES POETS
Introduction
Mu Dan
Spring
Eight Poems
The Flag
Demobilized
Du Yunxie
The Well
Moon
Bivouac
A Common Soldier Left Dead at the Side of the Road
The Season's Mournful Face
Language
Tang Shi
The Girl Who Steals Ears of Wheat
Tang Qi
Fog
Time and Banner
The First Light of Dawn
Hang Yuehe
Last Performance
Yuan Kejia
Nanjing
Shanghai
Pregnant Woman
Thinking about Our Times
Chen Jingrong
Yellow
To Xingzi
A Knight's Love: A Dialogue
Pulsation
Left Behind
A Painting of Running Water
The Web of Images
Idle Chat
Isolation
Crossing Paths
Writing in Chinese
The Radio Strangles Spring
Weavers of Nets
The Sculptor
Spring Comes to One Sick of Logic
The Unknown Me
Spring Song of Youth
The Pearl and the Seeker after Pearls
On Reading a Midsummer Biography
The Walls of the Ancient City of Gaochang
The Long Cry of the Peacock
Moth
A Porcelain Bas Relief of Bodidharma Walking across the Sea
After an Illness
What the Painted Eyebrow Sings
The Sound of Footsteps
Zheng Min
Golden Rice for Threshing
Forest
Meeting at Night
Village in Early Spring
Dipping My Feet in the Water
Two Lotus Flowers: On a Painting by Zhang Daqian
Wild Beasts: A Painting
Apparition on a Winter Afternoon: A Painting
The Student
A Glance
Drought
Tree
Horse
Portrait of an Imperial Maid of Honour by Wu Guxiang
Silkworms
The Wings of Swans
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