Creative Writing Chinese Poetry

AY2024/2025 Semester 2

This course is designed to illustrate the themes and techniques behind modern Chinese poetry and to enable students to produce poetry that sparks imagination and empathy. Various schools and forms of Chinese poetry, including lyrical poetry, visual poetry, concrete poetry and misty poetry etc. will be introduced to aspire creativity. Through the discussion and review of their writing assignments, you will have an in-depth understanding of the poetic composition of the genre. You will then learn to transform your personal experiences and ideas into free verses that are true to the spirits of modernity.