Publications [#315872] of Xuenan Cao

Book Reviews

1. CAO,, Book Review: Verses Going Viral by Heather Inwood, Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, and Reviews., vol. 37 (December, 2015)
   (last updated on 2021/05/23)

   Abstract:
   "Why is contemporary poetry so lonely" (4) in a time of commercialization and mass media? Along with such poignancy is a paradoxical need to safeguard the elite literary tradition of poetry through blatant collusions with the market and mass media. In a nation with a long tradition in and cultural memory tethered to poetry, contemporary poetry in China has supposedly failed in its dual mission of history--- writing and nation---building, and has thereby lost the aura of the art.h