Gold Mountain Dreams: Classical-Style Poetry : from San Francisco Chinatown

ISBN-13: 9783330057098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 52 str.

Lap Lam

Opis

This work attempts to shed light on some characteristics of the genre through the study of classical-style poems published in Chinese newspapers in San Francisco Chinatown.It aims to show that classical-style poetry, although imagined by some as "old-fashioned," was, and still is, written in overseas Chinese communities. For the practitioners, the form is not just a literary pursuit or pastime but also a means of identity construction and cultural expression, a way to demonstrate and preserve their sense of being Chinese on foreign soil.

O autorze

Lap Lam obtained his Ph.D. in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia. He is now Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore. A specialist in classical Chinese poetry in Modern period, he published a book about the ci lyrics of the Qing dynasty loyalists and many other English and Chinese articles.