New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry

1. Introduction: Toward a Chinese Lyrical Modernity
Christopher Lupke

2. “There Are no Camels in the Koran”: What Is Modern about Modern Chinese Poetry?
Michelle Yeh

Part I. Contemporary Poetry of Taiwan

3. Zheng Chouyu and the Search for Voice in Contemporary Chinese Lyric Poetry
Christopher Lupke

4. The View from the Buckwheat Field: Capturing War in the Poetry of Ya Xian
Steven L. Riep

5. To the Heart of Exile: The Poetic Odyssey of Luo Fu
John Balcom

6. Steward of the Ineffable: “Anxiety-Reflex” in/as the Nature Writing of Liu Kexiang (Or: Nature Writing against Academic Colonization)
Nick Kaldis

7. Opposition and Adaptation in the Poetry of Zhai Yongming and Xia Yu
Andrea Lingenfelter

Part II. Contemporary Poetry of Mainland China

8. The Ghost Enters the City: Gu Cheng’s Metamorphosis in the “New World”
Yibing Huang

9. Yan Li in the Global City
Paul Manfredi

10. Poetic Memory: Recalling the Cultural Revolution in the Poems of Yu Jian and Sun Wenbo
John A. Crespi

11. Naming and Antinaming: Poetic Debate in Contemporary China
Dian Li

12. Online Avant-Garde Poetry in China Today
Michael Day

Keywords: Literature, Asian Literature, Asian Languages, Postcolonial/World Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Twentieth-Century Literature