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Title

Sailing to Formosa : a poetic companion to Taiwan / edited by Michelle Yeh, N.G.D. Malmqvist, Xu Huizhi.

Publication

Seattle : University of Washington Press ; Taipei, Taiwan : Unitas Pub., c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Yeh, Michelle, 1955-
• Malmqvist, N. G. D. (Nils Göran David), 1924-
• Xu, Huizhi, 1966-

Description

191 p. : ill., map; 21 cm.

Alternative Title

Hang xiang Fuermosha : shi xiang Taiwan

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Chinese poetry > Taiwan > 20th century
• Chinese poetry > Taiwan
• Chinese poetry > 20th century
• Taiwan > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Text in English and Chinese.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Map of Taiwan 14 -- Beautiful Island -- Beautiful Island / Yang Huan 18 -- The Subtropics / Lin Hengtai 20 -- Communion between My Heart and the Island (five selections) / Duo Si 22 -- Hometown, You Are My Likeness / Su Shaolian 26 -- Infatuation / Wu Jingcheng 32 -- Sailing to Formosa / Xu Huizhi 36 -- My Island -- Manuscript in a Bottle / Yang Mu 42 -- Fallen Leaves / Monaneng 46 -- My Island / Zhang Guozhi 50 -- Jinmen Gaoliang Spirits / Ji Xian 54 -- On the Island of Bijia / Yang Ze 56 -- Historical Memories -- Discovering / Xiang Yang 62 -- On hearing the claim that "comfort women" were volunteers / Bai Ling 66 -- Wounded Mother Tongue / Lin Fan 68 -- Vermilion Cabinet / Du Ye 72 -- My Pen / Chen Xiuxi 74 -- The Orphan of Asia / Luo Dayou 76 -- Hometown Vignettes -- Narrow-Gauge Train / Lu Hanxiu 80 -- Preface to Hometown Vignettes / Wu Sheng 82 -- Strange Tales of Nanjing Street / Chen Kehua 84 -- On the Train, Tied Up in Two Knots / Chen Li 88 -- Lake Dabi, April 21st / Chen Yizhi 90 -- Jigsaw Puzzle / Yan Ailin 94 -- Nostalgia for the Mainland -- A Sick Man / Zeng Guihai 98 -- Two Trunks / Guan Guan 100 -- Wearing Chinese Clothes / Lin Yaode 104 -- The Sea / Luo Renling 106 -- Give Me Back My Homeland / Jiao Tong 108 -- Political Justice -- The Promised Land / Wang Tianyuan 116 -- Fasting / Zheng Jiongming 118 -- The Square / Bai Qiu 120 -- Door / Jiang Xun 122 -- Nightmare / Li Minyong 124 -- Mountains and Rivers -- Great Mountain at South Lake: A Sequence (two selections) / Zheng Chouyu 128 -- Central Ranges of Bear Cub Laheyuan / Liu Kexiang 130 -- Fresco on Mt. Ali / Luo Zhicheng 134 -- Upon Rising at Dawn, Gazing on the Central Mountain Range / Yang Han 136 -- Aria of Turtle Hill Island / Ling Yu 140 -- Social Critique -- A Hymn to Hualian / Hong Hong 144 -- Flying Garbage / Shang Qin 146 -- Tomb Sweeping / Xu Wenwei 148 -- The Epitaph of a Meteorite / Zhan Che 152 -- I won't write poems for you anymore / Li Kuixian 154 -- Everyday Life -- Husband-Gazing Stone / Walis Nogan 158 -- White Peony / Feng Qing 160 -- Changing Trains / Sun Weimin 162 -- A Bird Flies Past / Luo Fu 164 -- An Ordinary Song / Ya Xian 166 -- Poets 172.

ISBN

• 0295985879 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780295985879

LCCN

^^2005028610

OCLC

• 61758026
• SCSB-12457275

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library