Twentieth-Century Chinese Womens Poetry: An Anthology: An Anthology Lin Julia C.
Twentieth-Century Chinese Womens Poetry: An Anthology: An Anthology Lin Julia C. Chinese women's writing is rich and abundant, although not well known in the West. This anthology introduces English…
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Twentieth-Century Chinese Womens Poetry: An Anthology: An Anthology Lin Julia C.
Chinese women's writing is rich and abundant, although not well known in the West. This anthology introduces English language readers to a comprehensive selection of Chinese women poets from both the mainland and Taiwan. Despite the brutal wars and political upheavals that ravaged twentieth-century China, the ranks of women in the literary world increased dramatically.
The collection includes 245 poems by forty poets in elegant English translations, as well as an extensive introduction that surveys the history of contemporary Chinese women's poetry. It spans the early 1920s and the era of Republican China's literary renaissance through the end of the twentieth century. Brief biographical head notes introduce each poet, from Bin Xin, China's preeminent woman poet in the early Republican period, to Rongzi, a leading poet of modern Taiwan.
The selections are startling, moving, and