Chapter 1 Introduction: Toward a Chinese Lyrical Modernity

Chapter 2 “There Are no Camels in the Koran”: What Is Modern about Modern Chinese Poetry?

Chapter 3 Zheng Chouyu and the Search for Voice in Contemporary Chinese Lyric Poetry

Chapter 4 The View from the Buckwheat Field: Capturing War in the Poetry of Ya Xian

Chapter 5 To the Heart of Exile: The Poetic Odyssey of Luo Fu

Chapter 6 Steward of the Ineffable: “Anxiety-Reflex” in/as the Nature Writing of Liu Kexiang (Or: Nature Writing against Academic Colonization)

Chapter 7 Opposition and Adaptation in the Poetry of Zhai Yongming and Xia Yu

Chapter 8 The Ghost Enters the City: Gu Cheng’s Metamorphosis in the “New World”

Chapter 9 Yan Li in the Global City

Chapter 10 Poetic Memory: Recalling the Cultural Revolution in the Poems of Yu Jian and Sun Wenbo

Chapter 11 Naming and Antinaming: Poetic Debate in Contemporary China