 | Voices in Revolution: Poetry and the Auditory Imagination in Modern China Subjects: Revolutionary poetry Chinese; Oral interpretation of poetry; Chinese poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Social movements in literature; China's century of revolutionary change has been heard as much as seen, and nowhere is this more evident than in an auditory history of the modern Chinese poem. From Lu Xun's seminal writings on literature to a recitation renaissance in urban centers today, poetics meets politics in the sounding voice of poetry. Supported throughout by vivid narration and accessible analysis, Voices in Revolution offers a literary history of modern China that makes the case for the importance of the auditory dimension of poetry in national, revolutionary, and postsocialist culture. |
