A Survey on Controversial Issues plus 3 New Poets from China
31 July 2016 by Poetry International This week we feature a survey on highly controversial issues concerning contemporary Chinese …
A Survey on Controversial Issues Regarding Contemporary Chinese Poetry
31 July 2016 by Jing Wendong, et al There have been many debates over the years concerning the poetry scene and status of poets in …
4 Chinese poets from the Poetry International Festival archive
25 July 2016 by Poetry International This week we feature 4 Chinese poets who were guests at the Poetry International Festival …
A Survey of Poets’ Favorites, Chinese & Western
11 February 2016 by Ming Di In 2012 I asked over 20 Chinese poets the following five questions: 1. Who do you think are the …
Re-reading Hu Shi
11 February 2016 by Ming Di From 1915-1916, a group of Chinese students in the United States were engaged in heated debate on …
New Poetry from China 1916-2016
11 February 2016 by Ming Di January 2016 marked the 100th anniversary of the New Poetry movement in China. We are joining the …
Open ‘renshi’ in China
14 January 2016 by Ming Di From the Westernized renga that Octavio Paz practiced with three European poets in 1969, to …
A traveling poem
13 August 2015 by Ming Di This is a poem that travels across four countries, between four poets, and gets completed in four …
1990: the coming of a silver age
17 April 2014 by Ming Di Over the course of three thousand years of Chinese poetry, tremendous changes have taken place at …
A musical note of our era
17 April 2014 by Zhou Xiaojing For Zheng Xiaoqiong, as a prominent, award-winning poet and former migrant worker herself, writing …
Preface to The Silent Revolver
1 December 2007 by Jimu Langge The following short text was written by Jimu Langge to introduce his first collection of poetry, …
Ten Maxims or Utterances Concerning Poetry
1 February 2007 by Han Dong In a brief text written in 1995, Han Dong tried to sum up his ideas about poetry reading and …
Inside me, it’s all darkness
1 May 2006 by Duo Yu In an article published last year on a site devoted to Chinese art and literature criticism, Duo …
Welcome to Chinese poetry - February 2006
1 February 2006 by Yu Jian and Simon Patton I have described our new Poet of the Quarter, Jun Er, as a “misfit” and I mean this in the kindest …
Welcome to Chinese poetry - September 2005
1 September 2005 by Yu Jian and Simon Patton Welcome! Shang Qin is the China domain’s new poet of the quarter. Although no longer a soldier, …
Welcome to Chinese poetry - June 2005
1 June 2005 by Simon Patton and Yu Jian In order to alter the groove a little, our new Chinese poet of the quarter is a long way …
Welcome to Chinese poetry - March 2005
1 March 2005 by Simon Patton and Yu Jian Last year, on a twenty-hour bus trip from Brisbane to Australia’s capital city Canberra, I took …
Sincerity and Resistance to the Suffering at Our Backs
28 February 2005 by Xin Boping Song Xiaoxian’s poetry seems simple at first reading, but give it time, as Xin Boping found out, …
Welcome to Chinese poetry - December 2004
1 December 2004 by Simon Patton and Yu Jian Contemporary mainland Chinese poetry was born on 23 December 1978, the day on which members of the …
White Nights
30 November 2004 by Yuan Yuan Since 1998, Zhai Yongming has run a wine bar in her home city of Chengdu. In a recent report …
Waiting for a Miracle to Happen
30 November 2004 by Zhai Yongming In the following undated statement from the 1990s, Zhai Yongming attempts to summarize the most …
For the Vast Minority
30 November 2004 by Zhai Yongming At the end of her 1996 collection Cheng zhi wei yiqie (Call It Everything), Zhai Yongming …
Welcome to Chinese poetry - September 2004
1 September 2004 by Simon Patton and Yu Jian Contemporary mainland Chinese poetry was born on 23 December 1978, the day on which members of the …
Welcome to Chinese poetry - June 2004
1 June 2004 by Simon Patton and Yu Jian Contemporary mainland Chinese poetry was born on 23 December 1978, the day on which members of the …
Welcome to Chinese Poetry - March 2004
1 March 2004 by Simon Patton and Yu Jian Contemporary mainland Chinese poetry was born on 23 December 1978, the day on which members of the …
Following Where Your Own Grain Runs
10 December 2003 by Simon Patton After establishing email contact with Shuijing Zhulian, I put the following questions to our …
Welcome to Chinese poetry - December 2003
1 December 2003 by Simon Patton and Yu Jian Contemporary Chinese poetry was born on 23 December 1978, the day on which members of the …
Respect for Experience is Respect for the Body
18 August 2003 by Xie Youshun, Yu Jian A recent issue of the Chinese literary magazine Huacheng featured a dialogue between the …
Poetry in Motion
16 February 2003 by Zeng Hong “Falling in love”, Lü De'an once declared in an interview, is what made him take up writing …
Sheng Xing: A Poet's Suspicions
18 November 2002 by Sheng Xing Simon Patton recently emailed Sheng Xing to find out a little bit more about him. This is how he …
Welcome to Chinese poetry - November 2002
1 November 2002 Contemporary mainland Chinese poetry was born on 23 December 1978, the day on which members of the …
 
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