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- The Changing Room: Selected poetry of Zhai Yongming
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
summary
The author of six volumes of poetry, Zhai Yongming first became prominent in the mid-1980s with the publication of her twenty-poem cycle, "Woman," a work that forcefully articulated a female point-of-view in China??s largely patriarchal society. Her powerful imagery and forthright voice resonated with many readers. Zhai has continued to hone her critique of tranditional attitudes towards women, quickly becoming one of China??s foremost feminist voices and a major force in the contemporary literary scene. She is also an installation artist and prolific essayist, and stages poetry readings and other cultural events at the bar she owns in her native Chengdu.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 1-4
- Introduction
- pp. vii-x
- Translator’s Foreword
- pp. xi-xviii
- Premonition
- pp. 2-3
- Abandoned House
- pp. 4-5
- The First Month
- pp. 12-15
- The Second Month
- pp. 16-17
- The Fifth Month
- pp. 18-19
- The Twelfth Month
- pp. 20-23
- The Black Room
- pp. 24-25
- White Corridor
- pp. 26-29
- from Portrait
- pp. 36-37
- Fourteen Plainsongs
- pp. 40-67
- Scissorhands' Dialogue
- pp. 68-75
- The Changing Room
- pp. 86-91
- My Younger Brother in the Water
- pp. 92-97
- Reading the News
- pp. 100-101
- Daylight Slumbers
- pp. 102-103
- For Lu De'an
- pp. 104-105
- Natural Enemies
- pp. 108-109
- I'm Drunk and You're Dry
- pp. 110-113
- Fireworks and Working Girls
- pp. 114-115
- In the End I Come Up Short
- pp. 116-117
- Things Are Always Like That
- pp. 118-121
- Chrysanthemum Langerns Go Floating By
- pp. 122-125
- Climbing the Heights on the Double Ninth
- pp. 126-129
- The Submarine's Lament
- pp. 130-133
- Lightly Injured People
- pp. 134-137
- Her Point of View
- pp. 138-139
- The Song of Historical Beauties
- pp. 140-147
- Report on a Child Prostitute
- pp. 148-153
- The Language of the 50s
- pp. 154-157
- The Testament of Hu Huishan
- pp. 158-162
Additional Information
ISBN
9789629969295
Related ISBN(s)
9789629964900
MARC Record
OCLC
871208059
Pages
184
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No