FRONTIER TAIWAN: An Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry
, . . Columbia Univ., $24.95 (608pp) ISBN 978-0-231-11846-0
Mainland China continues to try to bring the "breakaway Republic" of 22 million (and the 13th largest economy in the world) of Taiwan back into the fold, but as editor and scholar Yeh shows in her introduction, Taiwan—and its poetry—has always been a complicated mix of influences. Multicultural and multilingual syntheses continue to characterize Taiwanese poetry, as this landmark collection, simultaneously published in Taibei—and, surprisingly, Beijing—makes clear. The first "modern" Taiwanese poems (eschewing classically ordained styles and subjects) were written in Japanese in the early 1920s, when Taiwan had been ruled by Japan for more than 30 years. The French-influenced surrealist experiments of the
Reviewed on: 04/23/2001
Genre: Poetry
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