TY  - BOOK
AU  - van Crevel, Maghiel
AB  - Language Shattered is both a history of poetry from the People's Republic of China and a case study of the oeuvre of a leading Chinese poet. After the stifling orthodoxy of the 1950s and early 1960s, the terror of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) brought official Chinese literature to a total standstill. At the same time, disillusioned youths were more or less accidentally exposed to a varied body of foreign literature and began writing underground poetry. In the 1980s this poetry scene, now above ground, became one of pluriformity and proliferation in both official and unofficial circuits. The brutal suppression of the 1989 Protest Movement gave it an exile offshoot. The historical overview in Part I of this book is complemented in Part II by a discussion of Duoduo's poetry. Duoduo's career as a poet reflects the vicissitudes of Chinese Experimental poetry - and his beautiful, headstrong poems merit attention in themselves. They show that Chinese poetry is not just of interest as a chronicle of Chinese politics, but as literature in its own right.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_624810
ID  - OAPEN ID: 624810
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030823025
KW  - chinese poetry
KW  - experimental peotry
KW  - duoduo
KW  - Bei Dao
KW  - Beijing
KW  - Characters of Kinship
KW  - China
KW  - Cultural Revolution
KW  - Duo Duo
KW  - History of China
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/146d0e71-f7fd-40f5-8dd5-3ecbc01b2a27/624810.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31841
PB  - Leiden University Press
PY  - 1996
SN  - 9789073782525
TI  - Language Shattered : Contemporary Chinese Poetry and Duoduo
ER  - 
