Verse Going Viral: China's New Media Scenes

Index

Activism: collective or community– based, 77, 182; homebody, 158, 182; online, 42, 47–50, 214n71; political, 10 Activists: after Sichuan Earthquake, 175; poetry, 11, 26, 129, 140–42, 150; political, 10 Agency: concept of, 7–8, 184; poetic/of poets, 8, 26–27, 54, 76 Agora: eAgora, 116, 173; hybrid, 20, 46, 103, 117; oAgora, 19–20, 116, 173; tAgora, 19–20, 156 Ai Qing, 28, 73 An Qi, 38 Anonymity, 42, 64, 174; gap, 55 Anonymous: individuals and writers, 63, 100, 152; nature of online communication, 54, 58 Anthologies and anthologizing, 11–12, 18, 21, 34–35, 42–43, chapter 2, 126, 155–56, 159, 168, 172, 221n29; 1990s poetry, 89; crippled anthologizing, 96. See also Cheng Guangwei; Chinese New Poetry Almanac Anti: -Bourgeois Liberalization Campaign, 32; -Intellectual, 98, 110, 121; -lofty, 62, 77; -Spiritual Pollution Campaign, 32 Arena (tan): cinematic, 12; of communication (see Foley); connotations of, 12; of the dead, 14, 18; literary, 12, 160, 166, 168, 216n122; of oral tradition (see Oral tradition); of poetry (see Poetry arena); of shit, 14; sporting, 12 Aura: of (global) culture, 41, 184, 194; of high culture, 19, 182; of poetry, 41, 44, 149; of poetry publications, 85; of poets or the title “poet,” 3, 27; of theatre, 16; true source of, 194 Avant-garde: of contemporary poetry, 27, 29, 37, 111, 130, 135; as distinct from official culture, 14, 123, 136; the genre of poetry as, 13, 45; Lower Body poetry as, 70, 72, 75, 133–34 (see also Lower Body); opposing the, 75; poetry publications and websites, 90, 101, 103, 217n16; poets’ understandings of, 134, 177; pretending to be, 110; School of Rubbish as, 60, 69 (see also Rubbish); style of poetry recitation, 128 (see also Recital; Recitation) Baby Lamb form (yanggao ti), 156, 163– 67, 176–77. See also Che Yan’gao; Spoof; Viral Beat Generation, 60 Bei Dao, 31–32, 62–63, 89, 105, 121, 215n101, 218n52; “The Answer,” 62, 121, 215n101; inclusion in Chinese New Poetry Almanac, 89, 105; pass Bei Dao, 31. See also Misty poetry; Today Beijing Olympic Games, 178 Beijing Review (Beijing pinglun) poetry forum, 51, 59–60, 62, 65–69, 76, 78–79, 157; creation of, 57; deletion of, 76, 79. See also Forums; Rubbish Big Square Poetry Festival (Dachang shige jie), 123–30, 193 Blogs, blogging: and celebrities, 160, 176–77, 227n31; commercial orientation of, 157; competition and awards, 52, 103; distribution or publication of poetry on, 21, 41, 80, 82, 114, 157; as part of research methodology, 40, 86, 220n3; poets’ participation on, 46, 69, 79, 108, i n de x Index 258 Chen Zhongyi, 46, 51, 132–33 Cheng Guangwei, 26, 33–34, 39, 83, 98–99; A Portrait of Years Gone By, 33–34, 83–84, 98–99 China Central Television (CCTV), 24, 126, 162, 214n73, 215n96 Chinese Communist Party (CCP), 14, 26, 30, 37, 48, 96, 108, 120, 175, 224n11 Chinese New Poetry Almanac, 35, 43, 83–85, 88–114 passim, 132; editorial processes of, 105 –8; finances and distribution, 90–92, 221n19 Chinese Poetry Charts, 190–91 Chun Sue (Chun Shu), 165, 191 Circles (quanzi), 12; literary, 95, 107; poetry, 52–53, 70 Citizens: ordinary, 7, 157; poet-, 8, 26, 77, 123, 142, 169, 190; rights, 5 Citizenship, 10, 25, 221n23; cultural, 8, 25, 212n18; neoliberal, 10; poetry, 7, 20, 27, 43, 46, 53, 76, 86–87, 116, 118, 148, 150, 187 Classical (or old style) poetry, 28, 81, 120, 155, 167–68, 211n3, 215n96; of the Song dynasty, 187, 220n4; of the Tang dynasty, 3, 45, 187, 220n4 Collectivism: in poetry communities, 12, 37, 78, 187; poets’ reactions against, 33 Colloquial (kouyu): language, 62, 68, 159, 177; poetry or writing, 34, 77, 155, 158, 165, 177, 181, 183, 189, 192; poets, 181; style or tone of voice, 38, 54, 164, 166 Commercialization: of culture, 46; era of, 184; of fiction, 216n119; of publishing, 113–14; of videosharing websites, 178 Communications, 9, 22–25, 46; environment, 77; everyday, 27; infrastructure, 114 Community, 8, 55, 148; appeals to, 140; -based services, 51; imagined, 112; interpretive, 68–69, 219n60; online, 49; poetry, 46, 54, 64–69, 75–79, 87, 155, 192; sense of, 117, 195 Computer(s), 8, 48, 55, 64, 133, 135, 173; games, 185, 195 Confucius, 3, 88, 223n65 Confucius Sez (Zi yue), 125 Conjuncture: concept of, 6, 11, 186; contemporary or of the early twenty-first-century, 8–11, 22, 26, 39, 41, 44, 82, 117–18 124, 129, 140, 182, 194–95 122...