Language Shattered Contemporary Chinese Poetry and Duoduo

• Main Author: van Crevel, Maghiel (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden University Press 1996
• Series: CNWS
• Subjects: Literary studies: poetry & poets; chinese poetry; experimental peotry; duoduo; Bei Dao; Beijing; Characters of Kinship; China; Cultural Revolution; Duo Duo; History of China
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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 tota...