China’s New Poetry or Into the Mist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13070428 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maja Lavrač (Academic and Research Network of Slovenia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 29-40 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2232-5131 • E-ISSN: 2350-4226 |
| Publisher | University of Ljubljana (PUBLISHER • SI) |
| DOI | 10.4312/as.2010.14.3.29-40 |
| OpenAlex | W1844103667 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The late 1970s and early 1980s represent a period of important innovation in the development of contemporary Chinese poetry. As this was highly personal and experimental, it soon became characterized as being “misty” or “obscure”. A new generation of young poets questioned the Chinese cultural tradition and expressed the need for its re-evaluation. They tried to re-examine the meaning of literature, and while doing so, they based the foundation for their poetry on the tradition and the spirit of personal freedom and democracy of the May 4th Movement (1919), having been at the same time strongly influenced by the Western modernist poetry, in which they found alternative fresh ideas
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · China · Chinese poetry · Democracy · Epistemology · Foundation (evidence · Literature · Meaning (existential · Period (music · Poetry · Political science · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Law · Literature, Politics, and Exile Studies · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |