Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature 18 presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature in modern China. This book offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Chinese literature. | 142 MODERN POETRY MOVEMENT IN TAIWAN civilization. He celebrates the unbridled natural forces within man he considers the libido the essential drive for survival. His search for a primitive self in the memories of his native Gaomi is thought to be a metaphorical search for the Chinese national spirit. Termed an explosion of life s energies Mo Yan s works resonate with the prevalent view held in China that the ancient Chinese race has degenerated suffocated by layers of restrictions its blood flow clogged and its life force exhausted. What the Chinese badly need Mo Yan suggests is the strong pulses of life the awakened primordial forces the red sorghum the big breasts and wide hips in order to rejuvenate itself. Mo Yan s most recent book Shengsi pilao Fatigue of Life and Death an examination of the relationship between the peasant and the land departs from his previous works in that it contains much less violence and is more contemplative. Considered by many as his best work the story is narrated by a former landlord executed during land reform in 1950. Unwilling to admit that he committed any crime other than being rich he is reincarnated into various domestic animals who observe up close the changes in his home village during the subsequent 50 years. See also ROOT-SEEKING LITERATURE. MODERN POETRY MOVEMENT IN TAIWAN. In the decade from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s Taiwan saw the emergence of four major poetry societies that played significant roles at different junctures of the modern poetry movement the Modernists the Blue Stars led by Tan Zihao Yu Guangzhong and others the Creationists represented by Zhang Mo Luo Fu and Ya Xian and the Regionalists also called Li Bamboo Hats . The modernist movement was spearheaded by Ji Xian who founded Xiandai shi Modern Poetry in 1953. Three years later the Modernist Society Xiandai pai was formally established drawing a membership of more than a hundred poets. In their mission statement the Modernists proclaimed their .
