Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Jane Hirshfield's poetic voice and zen meditation / Chung Ling. H.T. Tsiang's Poems of the Chinese revolution and transpacific bridges to a radical past / James I. McDougall -- Usurious translation: From Chinese character to western ideology in Pound's Confucian "Terminology" / Stuart Christie -- Wandering lost upon the mountains of our choice: W.H. Auden's "In time of war" / Lim Lee Ching -- China and the political imagination in Langston Hughes's poetry / Luo Lianggong -- Allen Ginsberg's "China" / Su Hui -- Grievance of the gendered self: Chinese Guiyuan elements in Carolyn Kizer's poems / Li Jing -- Jane Hirshfield's poetic voice and zen meditation / Chung Ling.
Summary:
"This edition documents the growth of interest in modernist and contemporary American poetry by scholars both inside and outside China. While the tradition of Asian-American literature and criticism is well-established, there has been less exposure to how China-based critics have viewed the increasing popularity of canonical and emerging American poetry. The volume uses a variety of approaches to argue a central theme--that the "encounter" of American poetry with contemporary Chinese modernity is occasioning a radical refashioning of not only American perspectives on Chinese culture and values but of the impact of Western values upon the Chinese worldview"-- Provided by publisher.
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