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I Can Almost See the Clouds of Dust

I Can Almost See the Clouds of Dust

Xiang, Yu
Sze-Lorrain, Fiona
Sze-Lorrain, Fiona

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Series: Jintian

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 0983297096
ISBN13: 9780983297093
Publisher: Zephyr Press
Published: Jan 14 2014
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

Considered a representative figure of the post-1970s Chinese poets, Yu Xiang is part of a new generation of contemporary Chinese poets following in the footsteps of the Obscure (otherwise known as Misty) poets and the post-Obscure writers. If identification is indeed a shadow act of figuration, Yu Xiang does not care for any post-age or post-modern label. Her response toward specific social or political realities in China during these recent years differ from her predecessors' during their respective epochs, in the sense that she does not necessarily depict them from an oblique stance. She does not merely dwell in ambiguities, contradictions and ambivalence. Nor does she present her work as a purely journalistic understanding of the downtrodden: impoverished villagers, traumatized mothers who lost children during the collapse of tofu-skin schools during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Instead, she depicts characters with a comparative eye--not just as a witness--but also from the starting point of having felt a feeling, an epiphany.

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