Selected Poems of He Jingzhi

Author: He Jingzhi
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: He Jingzhi is a renowned contemporary Chinese poet, with published poetry collections such as Sunrise Blooms (1954), Songs of Release (1961), and Answering the World Today (1990). His representative works include the long poem Singing Out Loud, the ballad Song of Lei Feng, the lyrical poem Back to Yan'an, Sanmenxia—Coiffed Terrace, and the opera White-haired Girl. His poetry excels in blending personal emotions with the atmosphere of the era, focusing on social sentiments in reality and expressing his voice of the times in dynamic language. In the 1950s, the stair-step political lyrical poems he created were widely celebrated and had a lasting impact. In 1979, Shandong People's Publishing House first published Selected Poems of He Jingzhi, and in 1997, Renmin Literature Publishing House re-published the revised Selected Poems of He Jingzhi, including 61 poems and 17 lyrics written by the author between 1939 and 1988.