Arthur Sze

Chinese Writers on Writing - Writer's World Arthur Sze

Brief Description: "With more than half the works appearing in English for the first time, this is the first collection that brings together material by writers reflecting on their work, processes, and challenges of writing under China's political system"--Provided by publisher. Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Excerpt from Some Modest Proposals for the Reform of Literature / Hu Shi -- Dreams and Poetry -- Preface to Call to Arms / Lu Xun -- Chapter I from The True Story of Ah -- Literature and Life / Mao Dun -- *Form in Poetry / Wen Yiduo -- Dead Water -- Excerpt from Literature and Revolution / Liang Shiqiu -- Dai Wangshu's Poetic Theory / Dai Wangshu -- Excerpts from My Own Compositions / Zhou Zuoren -- *How I Wrote My Short Stories / Lao She -- We Need the Zawen Essay / Ding Ling -- Excerpts from Talks at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art / Mao Zedong -- Writing of One's Own / Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing) -- Six Tenets / Ji Xian -- *Excerpts from Preface to A Historical Record of Carved Critters / Bian Zhilin -- Excerpts from Preface to Selected Poems / Ai Qing -- *Innovation and Continuity in Poetry / Lo Fu (Luo Fu) -- Excerpt from Preface to Dream or the Dawn and Other / Shang Qin -- The Lock Electric -- Excerpts from A Conversation with Shang in -- *Further Reflections on the Headwaters of Taiwanese Poetry / Yang Mu -- *The Song of Bishop Wort -- Excerpts from Life Is Changing: Even in Hilly Shangzhou / Jia Pingwa -- Excerpt from Protest of a Woman Author against Reckless Accusations / Li Aug -- *The Art of Fiction / Gao Xingjian -- Chapter 72 from Soul Mountain -- *Drifting / Bei Dao -- Excerpts from Blue House -- Excerpts from Midnight's Gate -- Poetry Lessons / Gu Cheng -- Misty Poetry: An Interview -- Excerpts from A Brief Self-Introduction -- *Black Night Consciousness / Zhai Yongming -- The chrysanthemum lantern is floating over me -- *Musings on Poetry / Zhou Zan -- *A Female Voice from the Past / Zhang Er -- Excerpt from Hsia Yu Interview by Steve Bradbury / Hsia Yu(Xia Yu) -- Excerpt from Pink Noise -- *Excerpt from The Poet I Most Love-Holderlin / Haizi -- *Excerpt from Toward a Writerly Poetry / Zang Di -- *A Charm About Things -- Excerpts from The Brown Notebook / Yu Jian -- Excerpts from They Tattoo Their Bodies for the World -- Thanks for That / Yan Li -- *Why I Write / Wang Anyi -- A Particular Sort of Story / Can Xue -- *Goatskin Raft-In Lieu of Preface / Xi Xi -- *Excerpt from All Is Creative Writing-News, Fiction, News Fiction / Zhang Dachun -- *Excerpt from Autobiography / Yu Hua -- Excerpt from Author's Postscript -- My American Books / Mo Yan -- Six Lives in Search of a Character -- Writing in Two Tongues / Wang Ping -- *Traveling Between Languages / Chen Li -- *Confronting the Multiple Deaths of the Chinese Language / Leung Ping-kwan (Liang Bingjun) -- Chinese as a Language in a Neighborhood / Xi Chuan -- Island (#2) / Yang Lian -- *The Poetics of Space, and More -- Translators -- Writers/Works Index. Marc Notes: English text from the original Chinese.; Bibl. ref. & index.; Avail. in cloth.

Contributor Bio:  Sze, Arthur Arthur Sze has published eight books of poetry, including The Ginkgo Light, Quipu, and The Redshifting Web. He was the first poet laureate of Santa Fe.