Urban Poetry from China - Paperback

by Huang Fan (Author), Daniel Tay (Editor)

In this volume, readers will find many excellent translations that attempt to meet the challenging task of capturing Chinese language- ambitious, technically sound, engaging works that at once function with, transmit, deepen, and transgress the meanings of their source texts. Readers will also find equally rewarding translations that attempt to subvert this task entirely. These latter translations embed themselves in an intertextual network, serving as stabilizing nodes that relate as much to their Chinese source texts as they do to other translations and texts in English.

Author Biography

Urban Poetry from China collects translations of 31 contemporary mainstream and avant-garde poets from across China, Macau, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Selected by Huang Fan and James Sherry with translation editor Daniel Tay, this anthology encourages " readers to look at these translations as texts in their own right. This collection of Chinese urban poetry extends and distills the love and nature poetry of Chinese tradition into today's tropes.