History of Contemporary Chinese Poetry

Author: Cheng Guangwei
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: This is a comprehensive and detailed textbook describing the historical development of contemporary Chinese poetry from 1949 to 2000. Based on a wealth of historical materials, the textbook traces the key events of contemporary poetry, focusing on representative poets and their works, narrating the conflicts, contradictions, and patterns in its development, and providing a thorough presentation and in-depth analysis of the issues involved. The unique observation and tracking of the modernist poetry movement and phenomena in the 1980s and 1990s are a distinctive feature of this textbook, with many materials being disclosed for the first time. This textbook offers a broad perspective and novel reading angles for understanding the winding and long development of contemporary Chinese poetry. It is part of the 21st Century General Education Series Textbooks.