Table of Contents

VOLUME 2, NUMBER 2

FEATURED AUTHOR: YI SHA

• 06 Yi Sha: Running His Race in the "Ninth Lane" by Heather Inwood
• 11 Six Poems by Yi Sha
• 16 I Have Something to Say by Yi Sha
• 18 Poetry Can Challenge, Too: A Few Thoughts on the Poetry of Yi Sha by Tang Xin

CHINESE LITERATURE/GLOBAL CONTEXTS

• 23 A Short History of Town and Country by Fan Xiaoqing
• 32 Contemporary Writers' Views on Literature: Fiction and Animals by Zhang Wei
• 36 The Ins and Outs of Modern Chinese Fictional Characters by Li Er

A GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE POETRY

• 40 Five poems by Shu Cai
• 45 Four Poems by Zhang Zao
• 48 "Family Matters" by Huang Guangqing
• Web Exclusive: Gallery of Contemporary Chinese Poetry, A Poem from Each Poet

SPECIAL SECTION: THE LANGUAGE OF TRANSLATION

• 50 The Possibility of the Impossible: On the Translation of Poetry by Shu Cai
• 58 Sensibility and Point of View: A Practitioner's Take on Gender and Translation by Andrea Lingenfelter
• 62 Humanity at the Interstices of Language and Translation by Carlos Rojas

SPECIAL SECTION: ETHNIC MINORITY POETRY AND POETICS

• 68 Cry of the Silver Pheasant: Contemporary Ethnic Poetry in Sichuan and Yunnan by Mark Bender
• 75 Son of the Nuosu Muse: The Poet Jidi Majia by Denis Mair
• 78 Five Poems by Jidi Majia

FEATURED SCHOLAR: YUE DAIYUN

• 82 Preface by Luo Hui
• 83 Some Thoughts on Comparative Literature and World Literature by Yue Daiyun
• 88 The Rise of a Scholar and a Discipline in China: A Celebration of Yue Daiyun's Contributions to the Field of Chinese Comparative Literature by Chen Yuehong
• 92 Coexistence in Diversity and Cross-Cultural Dialogues:
  An Interview with Yue Daiyun by Ji Jin
• 98 Yue Daiyun: A Bibliography compiled by Chen Yuehong

IN EVERY ISSUE

• Editor's Note
• Contributors
• Chinese Literature in Review

ON THE COVER

"Hiding in the City – No. 92 Temple of Heaven" by Liu Bolin

BOOK REVIEWS

• Mo Yan, Frog
• John A. Crespi, Voices in Revolution: Poetry and the Auditory Imagination in Modern China
• Yang Lian, The Narrative Poem
• Li Hui, The Legend of Huang Yongyu
  
• Wang Xiaoni, Some Flashes of My Mind
  
• Ai Mi, Hawthorn Tree Forever
  
• Xi Chuan, Personal Preferences
  
• Su Tong, Boat to Redemption
  
• Ge Fei, The Fall of the Last Blossom

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