[Yale-readings] REMINDER: CONTEMPORARY CHINESE POETS AT YALE: BILINGUAL POETRY READING--TOMORROW Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 4:30 PM, LC 211, 63 High St.

[Nancy Kuhl]

>Contemporary Chinese Poets at Yale:
>Poetry Reading in Chinese & English
>
>Historic Gathering Featuring
>Seven Established & Emerging
>Poets from Mainland China
>
>Xi Chuan Î÷´¨
>Zhai Yongming µÔÓÀÃ÷
>Tang Xiaodu ÌÆÏþ¶É
>Zhou Zan ÖÜè¶
>Zhao Ye ÕÔÒ°
>Chen Chao ³Â³¬
>Luo Ying ÂæÓ¢
>
>Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 4:30 pm
>Room 211, Linsley-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street, New Haven, CT
>
>Poets' bios appear below:
>
>Xi Chuan Î÷´¨
>Xi Chuan, penname of Liu Jun, is a poet, essayist, and translator, and has 
>been recognized as one of the most dynamic poets living in China 
>today.  He was born in 1963 in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, and graduated 
>from the English Department of Beijing University in 1985.  He was a 
>frequent contributor to unofficial poetry journals in Beijing, Shanghai, 
>and Sichuan during the 1980s and 1990s.  Xi Chuan has published four 
>collections of poems including A Fictitious Family Tree (1997) and Roughly 
>Speaking (1997), two books of essays and one book of critique, in addition 
>to a play and numerous translations, including works of Ezra Pound, Jorge 
>Luis Borges and Czeslaw Milosz. His own poetry and essays have been widely 
>anthologized and translated into many languages. He was awarded the 
>October Prize for literature by October Bimonthly in 1988, the Prize of 
>Shanghai Literature Monthly in 1992, the Prize of the People's Literature 
>Monthly in 1994, the Modern Chinese Poetry Prize in 1994, the Anne Kao 
>Prize for Poetry in 1995, and the Aiwen Prize for Literature in 1999.   He 
>is now an associate professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 
>Beijing, currently serving as Freeman Visiting Professor at New York 
>University.
>
>
>Zhai Yongming µÔÓÀÃ÷
>Zhai Yongming was born in 1955 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. A graduate of 
>the Chengdu Institute for Electronic Science and Technology, she formerly 
>worked in a research institute of physics. She published her first book of 
>poetry, Woman, in 1986. Her other poetry collections include Above All 
>Else the Roses (1989), Collected Poems of Zhai Yongming (1994), Plain 
>Songs in the Dark Night (1996), Call It Everything (1997), and I Am 
>Eventually Made Unworkable (2000). She is also the author of three books 
>of essays: Buildings on Paper (1997), Tenacious Broken Flowers (1999), New 
>York, to the West of New York (2003), and a book of criticism, Just as 
>What You¡¯ve Seen (2005). Her poems have been translated into English, 
>French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, German and other languages. In 2004, 
>translated collections of her poems were published in German under the 
>title Caf¨¦ Song and in French under the title Consciousness of the Dark 
>Night. She has been invited to international conferences and poetry 
>festivals in England (1992), the Netherlands (1992), France (1997), and 
>other countries. She was awarded the USA-Italian Civitella Ranieri 
>fellowship in 2005.
>
>
>Tang Xiaodu ÌÆÏþ¶É
>Born in 1954 in Yizheng, Jiangsu Province, Tang Xiaodu is a prolific 
>poetry critic and poet.  After graduating from Nanjing University in 1981, 
>the following year he became an editor at Poetry Monthly in Beijing. He is 
>now a senior editor at The Writers Publishing House and is a member of the 
>Chinese Writers¡¯ Association, a council member of the Chinese New Poetry 
>Institute, a research fellow at the New Poetry Research Center at Beijing 
>University, and a professor at Hainan University.  For over 20 years, Tang 
>has devoted himself to researching, criticizing, and compiling materials 
>on Chinese contemporary poetry, especially works of the avant-garde. He 
>has published four collections of critical essays including Starting 
>Points Anew Constantly (1989), Self-Selected Anthology of Tang Xiaodu¡¯s 
>Poetic Criticism (1993), Close Readings of Masterpieces of Worldwide 
>Modern Poetry (1998), and An Anthology of Tang Xiaodu¡¯s Essays on Poetics 
>(2001). He has also translated the works of many poets into Chinese, 
>including Sylvia Plath, Vaclaw Havel, Czeslaw Milosz, Zbigniew Herbert, 
>and Miroslav Holub.  He has edited numerous poetry anthologies, and his 
>own work is much anthologized at home and abroad. He was the recipient of 
>the first Literature and Art¡¯s Zhengming (contending) Award and the first 
>Shanhua (countryside flowers) Award for excellence in literary theory in 
>1995. He was awarded the Modern Writers Review Prize for excellence in 
>literary criticism in 2004 and 2005.  Tang has been a frequent guest at 
>poetry conferences and festivals in the West since the mid- 1990s and has 
>also been a visiting scholar at many universities abroad.
>
>
>Zhou Zan ÖÜè¶
>Zhou Zan was born in 1968 in Jiangsu Province.  She is a poet, scholar, 
>translator, and editor-in-chief of Wings, a literary journal for Chinese 
>women¡¯s poetry.  She holds a PhD from the Chinese department of Beijing 
>University, where she completed a dissertation on the avant-garde in 
>contemporary Chinese poetry.  Her poetry collection, Loosen: Selected 
>Poems 1997-2005, was published in 2007, and her other works include 
>volumes of critical essays entitled Through the Periscope of Poetic 
>Writing (2007) and Studies on Chinese Contemporary Literature (2001). Her 
>translation of Margaret Atwood¡¯s Eating Fire: Selected Poetry 1965-1995 
>is forthcoming from The Writers Press in 2007. She currently lives in New 
>York as a visiting scholar at Columbia University.
>
>
>Zhao Ye ÕÔÒ°
>Zhao Ye was born in Sichuan Province in 1964 and graduated from the 
>Foreign Languages Department of Sichuan University. In 1982, he initiated 
>the poetic movement of ¡°The Third Generation,¡± and in 1983 he organized 
>the Poetry League of University Students in Chengdu, where he compiled The 
>Third Generation, the first unofficial poetic journal in China. In 1985 he 
>joined the Young Poets¡¯ Association of Sichuan Province and jointly 
>compiled The Collection of Modern Poetry for Internal Exchange. In 1989 he 
>helped initiate the unofficial poetry journal Xiang Wang. In 2000 he was 
>awarded a poetry prize by The Writer, one of the most influential literary 
>magazines in China. In 2003, his poetry collection Time Passes Like 
>Flowing Water was published by the Writers¡¯ Press. In 2005 he attended 
>the Asia and Circum-Pacific Region Poetry Conference in Tokyo.
>
>
>Chen Chao ³Â³¬
>Chen Chao was born in 1958 in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province.  He is a professor 
>in the Literature Department of Hebei Normal University, as well as a 
>research fellow of the Chinese New Poetry Research Institute affiliated 
>with Beijing University, an editorial member of the literary journal New 
>Poetry Review, and the vice-chairperson of the Hebei Writers¡¯ 
>Association. His main works include: ¡°A Discussion of Poetry of the 
>School of Life,¡± ¡°Opening the Drifting Bottle of Poetry­Modern Poetry 
>Research Papers,¡±  ¡°An Appreciation of Inquiries on Twentieth-Century 
>Chinese Poetry,¡± ¡°A Guide to Reading Outstanding Works of Contemporary 
>Foreign Poetry,¡± and a collection of original poems entitled Passion, 
>Yes.  In total, he has published more than two hundred academic articles 
>and more than three hundred poems.  In 1993 he was awarded the Sixth 
>Zhuang Zhongwen Literary Prize by the Chinese Writers¡¯ Association, in 
>2000 he received the annual poetry prize from the literary journal The 
>Writer, and in 2005 he took third place in the ¡°Lu Xun Literary Prize¡± 
>awarded by the Chinese Writers¡¯ Association.  Additionally, he has won 
>many other literary prizes.
>
>
>Luo Ying ÂæÓ¢
>Luo Ying is the penname of Huang Nubo. Born in Lanzhou, Gansu Province, he 
>grew up in Yinchuan, Ningxia Province. He graduated from the Chinese 
>Language and Literature Department of Beijing University in 1981 and 
>obtained an EMBA from the Chinese-European International Industry and 
>Commerce Institute in 1998. He began writing poetry in 1976, and, in 1992, 
>he published his first poetry collection, Don¡¯t Love Me Anymore. His 
>other poetry collections include Melancholy Declined (1995), Fallen 
>Blossoms (2003), and Wandering in Cities (2005). While acknowledging that 
>there are many ¡°I¡¯s¡± in his poems, he believes that even if one adds 
>his real persona to all of these, it is still impossible to make up an 
>integral self. He believes himself to be a world abundant in possibilities 
>and transformations.

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