A century of modern Chinese poetry: an anthology

The formative period : 1910s-1920s. Lu Xun (1881-1936) : Boer ; Autumn night ; Beggars

Hu Shi (1891-1962) : Old crow (1 of 2) ; Dreams and poetry

Guo Moruo (1892-1978) : Heavenly dog ; On top of Fudetate Yama ; Shanghai impressions

Xu Zhimo (1897-1931) : By chance ; Sea melody ; Second farewell to Cambridge ; The train grips the tracks

Wen Yiduo (1899-1946) : First emperor of the Qin Dynasty ; Dead water ; Perhaps (an elegy) ; Confession

Li Jinfa (1900-1976) : The abandoned woman ; Words written on my self-portrait

Fei Ming (1901-1967) : Vanity table ; Dream ; Street corner

The first flowering of modern poetry : 1930s-1940s. Dai Wangshu (1905-1950) : My memory ; I think ; Improvised by Xiao Hong's tomb ; I run my mangled palm

Feng Zhi (1905-1993) : Snake ; Sonnets (4 of 27)

Ai Qing (1910-1996) : Dayanhe, my wet nurse ; Snow is falling on the land of China

Bian Zhilin (1910-2000) : The organization of distance ; The round jewel box ; Fragment ; Untitled (1 of 5)

He Qifang (1912-1977) : Prophecy ; Joy ; Autumn ; Cypress forest

Xin Di (1912-2004) : Rhapsody ; The source of loneliness ; Scenery

Ji Xian (1913-2013) : City in flames ; Dog barking at the moon ; Painter's studio ; Type B blood

Chen Jingrong (1917-1989) : Spring of the logic-crazed

Mu Dan (1918-1977) : Spring ; I ; Eight poems (3 or 8) ; Meditation

Zheng Min (1920-2022) : Meeting in the evening ; She and the earth

The modernist movement and surrealism : 1950s-1960s. Zhou Mengdie (1921-2014) : Aloneland ; On the ferry ; Under the wisdom tree

Mu Xin (1927-2011) : Froth ; Slowness of the past ; After the sleigh incident

Luo Fu (Lo Fu, 1928-2018) : Songs of Saigon (2 of 11) ; Song of everlasting sorrow ; Because of the wind

Yu Guangzhong (Kwangchung Yu, 1928-2017) : If a war is raging far away ; Homesickness ; Lord, do not cross the river

Shang Qin (1930-2010) : Giraffe ; Doves ; Electric lock ; The cat that enters through the wall ; Snow ; Chicken

Ya Xian (b. 1932) : Salt ; Paris ; Diva ; The colonel ; Andante cantabile

Zheng Chouyu (Wen-tao Cheng, b. 1933) : Mistake ; Pagoda ; Pure clarity ; Atayal tribe

Chang Yao (1936-2000) : Lost manuscripts from the years of calamity (2 of 9) ; Such a man ; A field of fragrant grass

Bai Qiu (1937-2023) : The wanderer ; A thousand roads, a thousand roots ; Public square

Fang Qi (1937-2021) : Little boat ; Composition ; Angels

Lin Ling (Helen Ong, b. 1938) : Untethered boat ; Non-modernist lyric ; Notes on spring renovations

Xi Xi (Cheun Ying, 1938-2022) : My father's backpack ; Memorials to the throne ; My friend's cat

Yang Mu (1940-2020) : Water's edge ; Jizi of Yanling hangs up his sword ; Let the wind recite ; Propositions of temporality ; Tale (in the meter of Metamorphosis II by Philip Glass) ; Cloud ship

Underground poetry, nativism, and women's voices : 1970s-1980s. Huang Xiang (b. 1941) : Beast ; I ; The day is nearly over

Ying Peian (Yeng Pway Ngon, 1947-2021) : On the operating table

Bei Dao (b. 1949) : Declaration ; The answer ; Local accent ; The landscape above zero degrees

Liang Bingjun (Ping-kwan Leung, 1949-2013) : Lotus link ; The old colonial building ; Papaya ; Traveling with a bitter melon

He Furen (Ho Fuk Yan, b. 1950) : The baby girl in my family ; Pandemic psychology ; Sick ship

Mang Ke (b. 1950) : Night above snowy ground ; Sunflower in the sun ; A man continues to age after death

Duo Duo (b. 1951) : Craft - after Marina Tsvetaeva ; Northern night ; Residents ; Often ; Evensong

Chen Yuhong (b. 1952) : Parenthesis ; At the beginning ; Tales no. 14: reset to zero

Ling Yu (b. 1952) : A potted plant ; The Pacific Ocean ; Month of May ; Autumn in September ; Rivers and mountains

Shu Ting (b. 1952) : Goddess peak ; Self-portrait

Zhong Ming (b. 1953) : Chinese acrobatics: a hard chair (1 of 4) ; Dueling with Ruan Ji

Chen Li (b. 1954) : The edge of the island ; War symphony ; Tango for the jealous ; Little deaths ; Adagio

Luo Dayou (Ta-yu Lo, b. 1954) : Childhood ; The orphan of Asia ; Roiling red dust

Yang Ze (Hsien-ching Yang, b. 1954) : Oh, my homeland is a mystical radio station ; Life isn't worth living ; Have no doubt

The anti-sublime and multiculturalism : 1980s-1990s. Yu Jian (b. 1954) : Work no. 16 ; Thank you father ; The sound of falling ; Elephants of 1966

Luo Zhicheng (b. 1955) : Bodhisattva ; A candle fell asleep in its flame ; Yelü Abaoji ; Desolate candy store (opening section)

Wang Xiaoni (b. 1955) : Half of me hurts ; People waiting for the bus ; Inside white paper ; Very white moonlight

Yang Lian (b. 1955) : Memorial to a tree at the street corner ; Island ; Baby girl ; The cry of cranes in Bassdorf

Zhai Yongming (b. 1955) : The submarine's lament ; New swan lake ; Report on a child prostitute

Bai Hua (b. 1956) : Expression ; Summer is still far away ; Last Emperor Li ; In the Qing Dynasty ; Reality

Gu Cheng (1956-1993) : One generation ; Accessory to the crime ; Fiction ; Ghosts enter the city (2 of 8)

Ouyang Jianghe (b. 1956) : Glass factory (1 of 5) ; Strawberry ; Crossing the square at dusk

Zhang Shuguang (b. 1956) : Human work ; Ulysses ; Photographs of dying time

Liu Kexiang (Ka-hsiang Liu, b. 1957) : Young revolutionary ; Hope ; Tropical rainforest ; What is indescribable about Mount Indescribable

Wang Jiaxin (b. 1957) : Pasternak ; Paz in old age ; Oranges

Sun Weimin (b. 1959) : Three potted plants and their master ; Spring 1985 ; Missing someone ; Peacetime

Lü Dean (b. 1960) : Whale ; Thaw

Walis Nokan (b. 1961) : Red flower ; Family genealogy VI: three generations ; Husband-gazing rock

Chen Dongdong (b. 1961) : Horse in the rain ; Light the lamp ; Low bank

Chen Kehua (Ko-hua Chen, b. 1961) : A strange tale of Nanjing Street ; Wedding vow ; Rain in Kyoto

Cui Jian (b. 1961) : Fake monk ; A piece of red cloth ; Eggs under the red flag

Han Dong (b. 1961) : As for great wild goose pagoda ; The side of me that is tender ; These last years ; Reading Simone Weil

Jiaya (Boon-Swee Tan, b. 1962) : Homesickness ; Untitled ; One-act play on the subway

Lu Yimin (b. 1962) : American women's magazines ; Sylvia Plath

Wang Yin (b. 1962) : Thinking about a Czech film, but I can't remember the title ; Gifts from on high ; The evening of my life has come too late

New lyricism and postmodernist experiments : The new millennium. Zhang Zao (1962-2010) : In the mirror ; Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai ; Conversation with Tsvetaeva (10 of 12) ; Drifting

Xi Chuan (b. 1963) : Stargazing on Haergai ; Rereading Borges's poetry ; Notes on the mosquito

Amang (b. 1964) : Supermarket ; Oh, if only one day my memory were good ; Ice

Haizi (1964-1989) : Autumn ; Motherland (or dreams as horses) ; Facing the ocean, spring warms flowers open ; Spring, ten Haizis

Hong Hong (Hung Hung, b. 1964) : A hymn to Hualian ; The last supper ; Homemade bomb ; The world

Luo Feng (Lok Fung, Natalia Chan, b. 1964) : The flying coffin ; Days when I hide my corpse in a box

Zang Di (b. 1964) : Spinach ; Butterfly-attracting flower ; The absolute aesthetics association ; Ashes primer

Xu Huizhi (b. 1966) : Stranded humpback whale ; Fragrance ; There stands a deer ; My obsessive-compulsive disorder

Lan Lan (b. 1967) : In my village ; Learning: the beautiful, the lustful ; Train, train

Chen Dawei (Chan Tah Wei, b. 1969) : In Nanyang ; Departing with the crane

Chen Mie (Chi Tak Chan, b. 1969) : Lo-fi ; Compulsive-shopping syndrome ; The ruined pier

Fang Wenshan (Vincent Fang, b. 1969) : Jasmine Orange ; End the war: an elegy for the fallen ; Blue-and-white porcelain

Yinni (b. 1969) : Earth god and poetry ; The edge of beauty

Zhu Zhu (b. 1969) : South-of-Yangzi, a republic ; Duolun Road ; September, Madrid ; New Jersey on the moon

Jiang Hao (b. 1971) : July 19, composed on the way to Five Finger Mountain ; What shape is the sea

Duo Yu (b. 1973) : Poetry and life ; Silent knowledge ; Everything is under construction

Wang Ao (b. 1976) : The crabs I once loved ; Quatrain 1 ; Quatrain 2 ; Quatrain 3 ; Quatrain 4

Lin Wanyu (b. 1977) : The speed of blossoming ; Unprincipled

Ye Mimi (b. 1980) : His days go by the way her years ; The more car the more far ; Two nights nine secrets - for turning twenty-nine

Zheng Xiaoqiong (b. 1980) : Train ; Drama ; Middle-aged prostitutes.