Michelle Yeh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1244689 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Yeh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Yeh |
| SIGNATURE | YEH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Monologue of a Stormy Soul
I wantthecold-blooded QueenofSnowtohear Themonologue ofa stormy soul. . . - Duo Duo, "YJhen theHearseofSpringCrosses theSulfur-Mining LandofExile"(1983) in 1951,Duo Duo started writing in 1972butdid notpublishhispoetry in official venuesuntil1985.In March 1988hepublished hisfirst collection ofpoems, Salute.Although it contains onlythirty-eight poemsineighty-two pages,itisnoteworthy that hewas placedsecondinthelonglineofpoets published in theserie…
The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature
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Introduction
SPECIAL SECTION Introduction: "The Best of Times, the Worst of Times" Michelle Yeh In thewake of the liftingofmartial law in 1987, Taiwan witnessed a media boom. Newspapers, magazines, and radio and television stations proliferated. Television programming began to run 24/7, and daily news papers expanded fromsix to twenty-some pages. In addition to the usual political, business, and sports sections and the literary supplement, the new space was d…
Adagio
POETRY Contemporary Taiwanese Poetry 1 Adagio by ChenLi Grandma sittingby the window (she was seventeen then,she says) waiting forthedistant clouds to move slowly to the mountaintop and become her hair in the mirror A catwalks across the lawn (so can a pig but not now) knocks over the rattanchair she often sitson in the middle of the lawn She turnson the radio to listen to reportsof snowfall but thegrass is so green Suddenly she craves vanilla ic…
One World, One Dream
Author's note: At the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics, a tiny, pigtailed girl movingly sang Ode to the Motherland. However, it was later revealed that the girl was actually lip-synching the voice of seven-year-old Yang Peiyi. The authorities had decided that, in the national interest, Yang Peiyi was not cute enough to project China's flawless image to the world. Reportedly, all the children who appeared on stage during the song, repr…
Road
You don't listen anyway byShiah-Shiah You don't listen anyway You never listen There's a fishsunbathing On thedeck The chef'swife sweats like rain The tomatoes on the chopping board need washing You don't listen anyway you never listen The sailor casts theanchor theboat casts the sea That cat and dog are stillpals The leatherbelt has a hole in thebelly button Make a key thensteal somewine An injured fingercan stillbe used Shoes without socks eyes…
Work
Work by ChenLi Because he toldher, "I enjoywork the most," she dreamed she became "work." For years she had wanted to be near him, to possess him, but seemed unable tooccupy hismind and body entirely forany lengthof time.Finally herwish came true when she dreamed she became "work," a word on a small scrap of paper he put inhiswallet, inhis left pants pocket. She layback contentedly, feelinghis body, especially his lowerbody, becoming aroused, exc…
War
Work by ChenLi Because he toldher, "I enjoywork the most," she dreamed she became "work." For years she had wanted to be near him, to possess him, but seemed unable tooccupy hismind and body entirely forany lengthof time.Finally herwish came true when she dreamed she became "work," a word on a small scrap of paper he put inhiswallet, inhis left pants pocket. She layback contentedly, feelinghis body, especially his lowerbody, becoming aroused, exc…
I Am Not Hot
You don't listen anyway byShiah-Shiah You don't listen anyway You never listen There's a fishsunbathing On thedeck The chef'swife sweats like rain The tomatoes on the chopping board need washing You don't listen anyway you never listen The sailor casts theanchor theboat casts the sea That cat and dog are stillpals The leatherbelt has a hole in thebelly button Make a key thensteal somewine An injured fingercan stillbe used Shoes without socks eyes…
You Don't Listen Anyway
You don't listen anyway byShiah-Shiah You don't listen anyway You never listen There's a fishsunbathing On thedeck The chef'swife sweats like rain The tomatoes on the chopping board need washing You don't listen anyway you never listen The sailor casts theanchor theboat casts the sea That cat and dog are stillpals The leatherbelt has a hole in thebelly button Make a key thensteal somewine An injured fingercan stillbe used Shoes without socks eyes…
A Pocket Watch
FICTION A Pocket Watch Huang Chun-ming In the second month after the end of World War II, LittleMing's father, who had been drafted by the Japanese army, came back having survived the fighting in Southeast Asia. He looked just like a beggar; besides fleas and bedbugs he had an old sterling silver pocket watch, which he gave to Grandpa as a present, for itwas the only thing he had. Grandpa was overjoyed. Not only did he love thewatch, but he consi…
Homemade Bomb
POETRY Contemporary Taiwanese Poetry 2 Homemade Bomb by HungHung Expel the Indians To construct America Expel theJews To construct Germany Expel thePalestinians To construct Israel Expel the Manchus To constructChina Expel all the impure elements To cleanse a poem? Those unrhymed syllables Those unpoetic words Those corpses of language Those refugee camps of language An orphan breaks a baby bottle To make a homemade bomb 2005 One World, One Dream…
“There Are no Camels in the Koran”
In 1951, in response to the criticism from fellow Argentines that his work lacked local color, Jorge Luis Borges wrote an essay titled "The Argentine Writer and Tradition." Referring to the Islamic prophet Mohammed, the writer observed that "in the Arab book par excellence, the Koran, there are no camels," for "[Mohammed] knew he could be an Arab without camels." "What is truly native can and often does dispense with local color" (1999: 423)
Frontier Taiwan
Taiwan has evolved dramatically from a little-known island to an internationally acclaimed economic miracle and thriving democracy. The history of modern Taiwanese poetry parallels and tells the story of this transformation from periphery to frontier. Containing translations of nearly 400 poems from 50 poets spanning the entire twentieth century, this anthology reveals Taiwan in a broad spectrum of themes, forms, and styles: from lyrical meditati…
International Theory and the Transnational Critic
I begin with the ongoing debate in the field of comparative literature as a point of departure for reflecting on the current state of Chinese literary and cultural studies. There are several reasons for doing this. First, by definition, comparative literature crosses many boundaries-linguistic, national, and cultural, to name only the most obvious ones-therefore, the transnational and transcultural thrust of comparative literature makes it a logi…
No Trace of the Gardener
Yang Mu, a pivotal figure in the development of modern Chinese literature, is one of the most widely read living poets of the world's largest literary audience: Chinese-speaking people. Providing a selection of poems from more than three decades of work, this book offers over one hundred translations that capture the poet's haunting lyricism. Drawing on avantgarde traditions of Europe and the United States as well as on the traditions of classica…
International Theory and the Transnational Critic
Michelle Yeh, International Theory and the Transnational Critic: China in the Age of Multiculturalism, boundary 2, Vol. 25, No. 3, Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field (Autumn, 1998), pp. 193-222
The "Cult of Poetry" in Contemporary China
A renaissance in literature and art took place in the People's Republic of China from the late 1970s through the 1980s. In poetry, the outburst of vitality first showed itself in 1978-80 in the undergroundToday (Jintian)group, which included cofounders and editors Bei Dao (b. 1949) and Mang Ke (b. 1951), and such contributors as Jiang He (b. 1949), Shu Ting (b. 1952), Gu Cheng (1956-93), and Yang Lian (b. 1955), to name only a few of the best-kno…
Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry
Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry
This book-the first comprehensive anthology in English of modern Chinese poetry-presents more than three hundred poems by sixty-six poets from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. All the poems are translated from the original Chinese into modern-day English, and many are introduced to the English-speaking world for the first time. The poems, which span the period from the 1910s to the present, represent the three watersheds in modern Chinese poetry: th…
Modern Chinese Poetry
Modern Chinese Poetry
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 clas…
Light a Lamp in a Rock
The controversy over experimental poetry in the post-Mao period is not only unprecedented in the history of Communist China but,judging from its scope and ramifications, is probably second in its significance only to the literary revolution of 1917 in which modem Chinese poetry was born. Generating hundreds of articles since late 1979 (Yu and Li, 1988), the controversy involves primarily the Menglongshivariously translated as Poetry of Shadows, O…
Modern Chinese Poetry
Lu Hsun
Light a Lamp in a Rock
The controversy over experimental poetry in the post-Mao period is not only unprecedented in the history of Communist China but,judging from its scope and ramifications, is probably second in its significance only to the literary revolution of 1917 in which modem Chinese poetry was born. Generating hundreds of articles since late 1979 (Yu and Li, 1988), the controversy involves primarily the Menglongshivariously translated as Poetry of Shadows, O…
The "Cult of Poetry" in Contemporary China
A renaissance in literature and art took place in the People's Republic of China from the late 1970s through the 1980s. In poetry, the outburst of vitality first showed itself in 1978-80 in the undergroundToday (Jintian)group, which included cofounders and editors Bei Dao (b. 1949) and Mang Ke (b. 1951), and such contributors as Jiang He (b. 1949), Shu Ting (b. 1952), Gu Cheng (1956-93), and Yang Lian (b. 1955), to name only a few of the best-kno…
Traditional Chinese Poetry and Poetics
Modern Chinese Poetry
Lu Hsun
Modern Chinese Poetry
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 clas…
Light a Lamp in a Rock
The controversy over experimental poetry in the post-Mao period is not only unprecedented in the history of Communist China but,judging from its scope and ramifications, is probably second in its significance only to the literary revolution of 1917 in which modem Chinese poetry was born. Generating hundreds of articles since late 1979 (Yu and Li, 1988), the controversy involves primarily the Menglongshivariously translated as Poetry of Shadows, O…
Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry
This book-the first comprehensive anthology in English of modern Chinese poetry-presents more than three hundred poems by sixty-six poets from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. All the poems are translated from the original Chinese into modern-day English, and many are introduced to the English-speaking world for the first time. The poems, which span the period from the 1910s to the present, represent the three watersheds in modern Chinese poetry: th…
Modern Chinese Poetry
Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry
The "Cult of Poetry" in Contemporary China
A renaissance in literature and art took place in the People's Republic of China from the late 1970s through the 1980s. In poetry, the outburst of vitality first showed itself in 1978-80 in the undergroundToday (Jintian)group, which included cofounders and editors Bei Dao (b. 1949) and Mang Ke (b. 1951), and such contributors as Jiang He (b. 1949), Shu Ting (b. 1952), Gu Cheng (1956-93), and Yang Lian (b. 1955), to name only a few of the best-kno…
International Theory and the Transnational Critic
Michelle Yeh, International Theory and the Transnational Critic: China in the Age of Multiculturalism, boundary 2, Vol. 25, No. 3, Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field (Autumn, 1998), pp. 193-222
No Trace of the Gardener
Yang Mu, a pivotal figure in the development of modern Chinese literature, is one of the most widely read living poets of the world's largest literary audience: Chinese-speaking people. Providing a selection of poems from more than three decades of work, this book offers over one hundred translations that capture the poet's haunting lyricism. Drawing on avantgarde traditions of Europe and the United States as well as on the traditions of classica…
International Theory and the Transnational Critic
I begin with the ongoing debate in the field of comparative literature as a point of departure for reflecting on the current state of Chinese literary and cultural studies. There are several reasons for doing this. First, by definition, comparative literature crosses many boundaries-linguistic, national, and cultural, to name only the most obvious ones-therefore, the transnational and transcultural thrust of comparative literature makes it a logi…
Frontier Taiwan
Taiwan has evolved dramatically from a little-known island to an internationally acclaimed economic miracle and thriving democracy. The history of modern Taiwanese poetry parallels and tells the story of this transformation from periphery to frontier. Containing translations of nearly 400 poems from 50 poets spanning the entire twentieth century, this anthology reveals Taiwan in a broad spectrum of themes, forms, and styles: from lyrical meditati…
“There Are no Camels in the Koran”
In 1951, in response to the criticism from fellow Argentines that his work lacked local color, Jorge Luis Borges wrote an essay titled "The Argentine Writer and Tradition." Referring to the Islamic prophet Mohammed, the writer observed that "in the Arab book par excellence, the Koran, there are no camels," for "[Mohammed] knew he could be an Arab without camels." "What is truly native can and often does dispense with local color" (1999: 423)
The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature
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Introduction
SPECIAL SECTION Introduction: "The Best of Times, the Worst of Times" Michelle Yeh In thewake of the liftingofmartial law in 1987, Taiwan witnessed a media boom. Newspapers, magazines, and radio and television stations proliferated. Television programming began to run 24/7, and daily news papers expanded fromsix to twenty-some pages. In addition to the usual political, business, and sports sections and the literary supplement, the new space was d…
Adagio
POETRY Contemporary Taiwanese Poetry 1 Adagio by ChenLi Grandma sittingby the window (she was seventeen then,she says) waiting forthedistant clouds to move slowly to the mountaintop and become her hair in the mirror A catwalks across the lawn (so can a pig but not now) knocks over the rattanchair she often sitson in the middle of the lawn She turnson the radio to listen to reportsof snowfall but thegrass is so green Suddenly she craves vanilla ic…
One World, One Dream
Author's note: At the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics, a tiny, pigtailed girl movingly sang Ode to the Motherland. However, it was later revealed that the girl was actually lip-synching the voice of seven-year-old Yang Peiyi. The authorities had decided that, in the national interest, Yang Peiyi was not cute enough to project China's flawless image to the world. Reportedly, all the children who appeared on stage during the song, repr…
Road
You don't listen anyway byShiah-Shiah You don't listen anyway You never listen There's a fishsunbathing On thedeck The chef'swife sweats like rain The tomatoes on the chopping board need washing You don't listen anyway you never listen The sailor casts theanchor theboat casts the sea That cat and dog are stillpals The leatherbelt has a hole in thebelly button Make a key thensteal somewine An injured fingercan stillbe used Shoes without socks eyes…
Work
Work by ChenLi Because he toldher, "I enjoywork the most," she dreamed she became "work." For years she had wanted to be near him, to possess him, but seemed unable tooccupy hismind and body entirely forany lengthof time.Finally herwish came true when she dreamed she became "work," a word on a small scrap of paper he put inhiswallet, inhis left pants pocket. She layback contentedly, feelinghis body, especially his lowerbody, becoming aroused, exc…
War
Work by ChenLi Because he toldher, "I enjoywork the most," she dreamed she became "work." For years she had wanted to be near him, to possess him, but seemed unable tooccupy hismind and body entirely forany lengthof time.Finally herwish came true when she dreamed she became "work," a word on a small scrap of paper he put inhiswallet, inhis left pants pocket. She layback contentedly, feelinghis body, especially his lowerbody, becoming aroused, exc…
I Am Not Hot
You don't listen anyway byShiah-Shiah You don't listen anyway You never listen There's a fishsunbathing On thedeck The chef'swife sweats like rain The tomatoes on the chopping board need washing You don't listen anyway you never listen The sailor casts theanchor theboat casts the sea That cat and dog are stillpals The leatherbelt has a hole in thebelly button Make a key thensteal somewine An injured fingercan stillbe used Shoes without socks eyes…
You Don't Listen Anyway
You don't listen anyway byShiah-Shiah You don't listen anyway You never listen There's a fishsunbathing On thedeck The chef'swife sweats like rain The tomatoes on the chopping board need washing You don't listen anyway you never listen The sailor casts theanchor theboat casts the sea That cat and dog are stillpals The leatherbelt has a hole in thebelly button Make a key thensteal somewine An injured fingercan stillbe used Shoes without socks eyes…
A Pocket Watch
FICTION A Pocket Watch Huang Chun-ming In the second month after the end of World War II, LittleMing's father, who had been drafted by the Japanese army, came back having survived the fighting in Southeast Asia. He looked just like a beggar; besides fleas and bedbugs he had an old sterling silver pocket watch, which he gave to Grandpa as a present, for itwas the only thing he had. Grandpa was overjoyed. Not only did he love thewatch, but he consi…
Homemade Bomb
POETRY Contemporary Taiwanese Poetry 2 Homemade Bomb by HungHung Expel the Indians To construct America Expel theJews To construct Germany Expel thePalestinians To construct Israel Expel the Manchus To constructChina Expel all the impure elements To cleanse a poem? Those unrhymed syllables Those unpoetic words Those corpses of language Those refugee camps of language An orphan breaks a baby bottle To make a homemade bomb 2005 One World, One Dream…
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