American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter

American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounteroffers a framework for understanding the variety of imagined encounters by eight different American poets with their imagined 'Chinese' subject. The method is historical and materialist, insofar as the co

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10.1057/9780230391727 - American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter, Edited by Zhang Yuejun and Stuart Christie

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American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter

10.1057/9780230391727 - American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter, Edited by Zhang Yuejun and Stuart Christie

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Zhang Yuejun and Stuart Christie

10.1057/9780230391727 - American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter, Edited by Zhang Yuejun and Stuart Christie

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American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter

AMERICAN MODERNIST POETRY AND THE CHINESE ENCOUNTER

Copyright © Zhang Yuejun and Stuart Christie, 2012. All rights reserved.

Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–0–230–39171–0 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data American modernist poetry and the Chinese encounter / Edited by Zhang Yuejun and Stuart Christie. pages cm ISBN 978–0–230–39171–0 (hardback) 1. American poetry—Appreciation—China. 2. National characteristics, American, in literature. 3. Modernism (Literature)—China. I. Zhang, Yuejun, 1965– II. Christie, Stuart, 1967– PS159.C5A44 2012 811.009—dc23

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10.1057/9780230391727 - American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter, Edited by Zhang Yuejun and Stuart Christie

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List of Figures and Tables

vii

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction Zhang Yuejun and Stuart Christie

1

Part I

Entry

1 “Between Walls”: So Much Depends on Chinese Immigrant Poetry in Defining the Modernist Age Christopher A. Shinn

19

2 H. T. Tsiang’s Poems of the Chinese Revolution and Transpacific Bridges to a Radical Past James I. McDougall

49

Part II

Influence

3 Usurious Translation: From Chinese Character to Western Ideology in Pound’s Confucian “Terminology” Stuart Christie

77

4 Wande