Modern Poetry Modernism And Modernity

This course examines modern Chinese poetry since the early 20th century in the context of western influence and the reassessment and assimilation of classical Chinese poetics. Works by modern poets such as Xu Zhimo, Wen Yiduo, Guo Moruo, Yu Guangzhong, Zheng Chouyu, Lin Yaode, etc., will be discussed with special reference to the issues of modernism as a style and modernity as a socio-cultural condition.