CONTENTS
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
List of Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Chapter One
Avant-Garde Poetry from China: Text, Context and Metatext 1
1. What Went Before . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2. The Unofficial Poetry Scene and the Avant-Garde . . . . 5
3. Context: Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money . . . . . . . 13
4. Text: From Elevated to Earthly and from What to How 23
5. Metatext: Images of Poetry and Poethood . . . . . . . . . . . 30
6. The Case Studies, and What This Book Wants to Do 50
Chapter Two
True Disbelief: Han Dong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
1. The Rejection of Obscure Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
2. An Original Poetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Chapter Three
Thanatography and the Poetic Voice: Haizi . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
1. Thanatography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
2. The Poetic Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Chapter Four
Exile: Yang Lian, Wang Jiaxin and Bei Dao . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
1. Poets in Exile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
2. Exile in Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Chapter Five
Mind over Matter, Matter over Mind: Xi Chuan . . . . . . . . 187
1. Spirituality versus Materialism and the Barbarians . . . 189
2. A Different Voice: Poetry Rising, Poets Falling . . . . . . 194
3. Words Capturing Images, Images Capturing Words . . . 215
Chapter Six
Fringe Poetry, But Not Prose: Xi Chuan and Yu Jian . . . . . 223
1. A Wonderful Inadequacy of Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
2. «Salute» and «File 0»: Poetry or Prose? . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
3. Fringe Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Chapter Seven
Objectification and the Long-Short Line: Yu Jian . . . . . . . . 247
1. Objectification and Subjectification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
2. Long Lines and Blanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Chapter Eight
Narrative Rhythm, Sound and Sense: Sun Wenbo . . . . . . . . 281
1. Content Bias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
2. «The Program»: Content and Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
3. «The Program»: Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
4. Narrativity and Its Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Chapter Nine
The Lower Body: Yin Lichuan and Shen Haobo . . . . . . . . . 305
1. Lower Body Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
2. A Poetic Lineage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
Chapter Ten
Not at Face Value: Xi Chuan’s Explicit Poetics . . . . . . . . . . 345
1. Explanations, Issues and Alchemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
2. A Bigger Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Chapter Eleven
Desecrations? Han Dong’s and Yu Jian’s Explicit Poetics . . . 365
1. Poethood According to Han Dong and Yu Jian . . . . . . 366
2. Metatextual Styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
Chapter Twelve
What Was All the Fuss About? The Popular-Intellectual Polemic 399
1. What Were the Issues? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
2. What Was at Stake? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
Appendix: A Chronological Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Chapter Thirteen
More Than Writing, As We Speak: Yan Jun . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
1. Three-Dimensional Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
2. Writing, Event Culture and Poetry Opening Up . . . . . 471
Works Cited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
Index and Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
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