Cheung, Dominic, The Isle Full of Noises: Modern Chinese Poetry from Taiwan and Julia Lin, Essays on Contemporary Chinese Poetry

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Lupke, Christopher

• This is a lengthy review article on two books about postwar Chinese language or Sinophone poetry from Taiwan. The article covers Dominic Cheung's capacious anthology of poetry translated into English and Julia Lin's scholarly work that deals chapter-by-chapter with a dozen important poets. Although not fully comprehensive, taken together, these two books give the reader a fulsome understanding of poetry, especially of the 1950s to the early 1980s. Poetry in Taiwan during this era came to full fruition and represents some of the best Chinese poetry of the modern era and a worthy counterpoint to the more than two millennia of traditional Chinese poetry for which Chinese civilization is so well known.

• Date created

  1989-08-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • contemporary Chinese poetry; Taiwan; modernism; nativism; postwar culture;
  • anxiety of influence;
  • horizontal transplant;
  • Blue Star Poetry Society; Epoch Literary Society; Bamboo Hat Literary Society;

• Type of Item

  Review

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-t33d-w709

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International