Twentieth-century Chinese Women's Poetry: An Anthology: An Anthology

by Julia C. Lin

Overview

Chinese women's writing is rich and abundant, although not well known in the West. Despite the brutal wars and political upheavals that ravaged twentieth-century China, the ranks of women in the literary world increased dramatically. This anthology introduces English language readers to a comprehensive selection of Chinese women poets from both the mainland and Taiwan. It spans the early 1920s and the era of Republican China's literary renaissance through the end of the twentieth century. The collection includes 245 poems by forty poets in elegant English translations, as well as an extensive introduction that surveys the history of contemporary Chinese women's poetry. Brief biographical head notes introduce each poet, from Bin Xin, China's preeminent woman poet in the early Republican period, to Rongzi, a leading poet of modern Taiwan. The selections are startling, moving, and wide-ranging in mood and tone. Together they present an enticing palette of delightful, elegant, playful, lyric, and tragic poetry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317453192
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/18/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	777 KB

About the Author

Julia C. Lin

Table of Contents

Part 1 Poets From China; Chapter 1 BING XIN / PING HSIN (1900-1999); Chapter 2 LIN HUIYIN / LIN HUI-YIN (1904-1955); Chapter 3 CHEN JINGRONG / CH'EN CHING-JUNG (1917-1989); Chapter 4 ZHENG MIN / CHENG MIN (1920- ); Chapter 5 WANG ERBEI / WANG ERH-PEI (1926- ); Chapter 6 XIAO GANG / HSIAO KANG (1945- ); Chapter 7 FU TIANLIN / FU T'IEN-LIN (1946- ); Chapter 8 MEI SHAOJING / MEI SHAO-CHING (1948- ); Chapter 9 ZHANG YE / CHANG YEH (1948- ); Chapter 10 LU PING / LU P'ING (1949- ); Chapter 11 LI XIAOYU / LI HSIAO-YU (1951- ); Chapter 12 YI LEI / I LEI (1951- ); Chapter 13 SHU TING / SHU T'ING (1952- ); Chapter 14 ZHAI YONGMING / CHAI YUNG-MING (1955- ); Chapter 15 TANG YAPING / T'ANG YA-P'ING (1962- ); Chapter 16 YANG LIUHONG / YANG LIU-HUNG (1965- ); Part 2 Poets From Taiwan; Chapter 17 ZHANG XIUYA / CHANG HSIU-YA (1919- ); Chapter 18 HU PINQING / HU P'IN-CH'ING (1921- ); Chapter 19 RONG ZI / YUNG TZU (1928- ); Chapter 20 ZHUO YIYU / CHO I-YU (1934- ); Chapter 21 XIE XING / HSIEH HSING (1938- ); Chapter 22 LIN LING (1938- ); Chapter 23 LI ZHENGNAI / LI CHENG-NAI (1939- ); Chapter 24 DOU SI / TOU SSU (1939- ); Chapter 25 WANG YU (1939- ); Chapter 26 ZHANG XIANGHUA / CHANG HSIANG-HUA (1939- ); Chapter 27 LUO YING / LO YING (1940- ); Chapter 28 XIONG HONG / HSIUNG HUNG (1940- ); Chapter 29 GU YUE / KU YUEH (1942- ); Chapter 30 LIU YANXIANG / LIU YEN-HSIANG (1942- ); Chapter 31 DAN YING / TAN YING (1943- ); Chapter 32 XI MUYONG / HSI MU-YUNG (1943- ); Chapter 33 ZHONG LING / CHUNG LING (1945- ); Chapter 34 XIANG LIN / HSIANG LIN (1948- ); Chapter 35 LAN LING (1949- ); Chapter 36 FENG QING / FENG CH'ING (1950- ); Chapter 37 ZHU LING / CHU LING (1950- ); Chapter 38 LING YU (1952- ); Chapter 39 XIA YU / HSIA YU (1956- ); Chapter 40 XIAO XIAO / HSIAO HSIAO (1957- );