Traveling Poetry and the Presence of Soul: An Interview with Wang Jiaxin (2024)

Crossing borders in opposite direction. An influence of Western elements in contemporary Chinese poetry

Borders and Beyond. Orient-Occident Crossing in Literature, 2018

Inside the History of the World: Syntheses of Literary Form between Prose Poetry and China

PMLA, 2023

What is the international literary history behind Xi Chuan's Chinese prose poems, and what is the literary history behind translating them into English as prose poems? Did Hegel's belief that poetry can be “translated into other languages without essential detriment to its value” contribute to the birth of prose poetry, through a synthesis with poetic form? If so, what does this notion say about Hegel's idea that China lies “outside the World's History”? In the light of the historical association between China and prose poetry in the literary history of French (Judith Gautier, Victor Segalen, Henri Michaux) and English (Allen Upward, Nathaniel Tarn, Ron Silliman, Bob Perelman, Joan Retallack, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, Sarah Howe, Ken Chen, Cathy Park Hong, Eleanor Goodman, Jennifer Kronovet, and Nick Admussen), I discuss prose poetry as an outcome of what Joyelle McSweeney and Johannes Göransson call a translational “deformation zone,” to argue that translating Chinese prose poetry demonstrates China to be inside, not outside, the history of the world.

Walk on the Wild Side: Snapshots of the Chinese Poetry Scene

To the Frontier of the Mind: Shen Congwen and World Literature

A Companion to World Literature

One of the most original modern Chinese writers, Shen Congwen is best known for his “native‐soil” stories set in his hometown region of West Hunan. There is, however, an international dimension to Shen's literary regionalism in terms of influence and inspiration. More important, if Shen Congwen deserves a fellowship with other prominent writers of local‐color fiction in the realm of world literature, it would be owing less to the regional and social issues he writes about than to the innovative ways he modernizes traditional Chinese aesthetics to push his literary exploration of these issues from the geographical frontier to the frontier of the human psyche. The fact that Shen gives psychologically complex leading roles to rural characters and those from the lower classes of society makes his writing all the more subversive.

Chinese Poetry from Center to Periphery: A Conversation with Michelle Yeh

Chinese Literature Today, 2011

Michelle Yeh, Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of California, Davis, is arguably the most well known scholar writing in English on modern Chinese poetry. Yet she was not always a critic of Chinese literature. In this interview, CLT Deputy Editor in Chief Jonathan Stalling speaks with Yeh about her life-long interest in poetry, her career's shift into Chinese poetry, and some exciting new directions her work will take in the future. Along the way, Yeh explores the continually shifting yet always intertwined relationship between classical and modern Chinese poetry.

Relocating "China" in Contemporary American Poetry: The Case of Timothy Yu

Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturkomparatistik, Band 10: Contemporary Poetry and Politics. Hrsg. Anna Fees, Henrieke Stahl, Claus Telge. 153-163., 2023

This article examines "China" in contemporary American poetry using the example of Timothy Yu's poems, titled "Chinese Silence," which rewrite and / or parody texts from the American literary canon as well as public communication. It proposes a hallof-mirrors reading of these poems in order to show how Yu's poems refer to, reflect on, and relocate other authors' writing of "China." It argues that Yu's poems, instead of making claims for an authentic "China," attempt to bring Chinese Americans' lived experience into the American literary tradition.

Review: Chinese Poetic Modernisms (edited by Christopher Lupke and Paul Manfredi)

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, 2019

The Poetic World of Jing: A Study of Chinese Poetics from Western Perspective

The Chinese aesthetic concept “jing 境” is one of the most important subjects for the studies of traditional Chinese poetry and literary criticism in both China and the West. Based on a brief survey of the English translations and interpretations of this concept offered by some leading scholars in the United States and Canada, this essay aims to reconsider jing by discussing its inside subjectivity and outside objectivity. From this point of view, this essay approaches Zhang Yan’s 张炎 (1248-1320?) qingkong清空, a concept about the transparent poetic world of jing, and also argues with Wang Guowei 王国维 (1877-1927), who is the most influential literary critic on the concept of jing, about his criticism of Jiang Kui 姜夔 (1155?-1221?) on the very topic of jing.

Classical Chinese and Modern Anglo-American Poetry: Convergence of Languages and Poetry Author

The Making of a Chinese Romantic: Cosmopolitan Nationalism and Lyrical Exoticism in Xu Xu's Early Travel Writings

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC), volume 23.2 , 2011