Modern Chinese Poetry: Theory and Practice Since 1917 (English and Chinese Edition)

Yeh, Michelle

ISBN 10: 0300047878 / ISBN 13: 9780300047875

Published by Yale University Press, 1991

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Yale University Press, 1991; First Printing with full number line; xiii, 252pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; minor wear to edges of gray cloth boards, red foil titling remains bright and bold; text very good. Minor wear to edges of unclipped dust jacket; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Seller Inventory # 306849

Bibliographic Details

Title: Modern Chinese Poetry: Theory and Practice ...

Publisher: Yale University Press

Publication Date: 1991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

Modern Chinese poetry, says Michelle Yeh is both a revolt against ancient literary tradition that has lost its vitality and a response to the changing sociopolitical and cultural conditions of the 20th century. In this book Yeh examines the theoretical and artistic aspects of the poetry as well as its historical and literary contexts. She explains why modern Chinese poetry has evolved the way it has and compares it with the 3000 year Chinese classical tradition. Among factors contributing to the revolution in poetry, Yeh discusses the loss of a universal value system and a clearly defined role for the art. She looks at the creation of a private, introverted and idiosyncratic world in which artistic experiment occures in ways that would have been inconcievable in traditional poetics. Yeh focuses on some stylistic features unique to modern Chinese poetry and discusses the ways in which Chinese poetry since 1917 has become receptive to the influence of modernism in the West and has both integrated and transformed tradition. The book contains many original translations of poems that either have never been translated or have not been translated well. An appendix provides the Chinese original for all the poems discussed. There is also a glossary of Chinese names shown in Chinese characters, in Pinyin romanization and in Wade-Giles romanization.