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Qian, Zhaoming was born on July 25, 1944 in Shanghai, China. Son of Shaozhong Qian and Wenjing Chen.
(What role did Chinese art play in the poetic development ...)
What role did Chinese art play in the poetic development of Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens? How could they share Chinese artists' Dao, an aesthetic held to be beyond verbal representation? In this sequel to his critically acclaimed study Orientalism and Modernism, Zhaoming Qian investigates the ways in which these three modernist poets received Chinese artistic notions and assimil...
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( What role did Chinese art play in the poetic developmen...)
What role did Chinese art play in the poetic development of Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens? How could they share Chinese artists’ Dao, an aesthetic held to be beyond verbal representation? In this sequel to his critically acclaimed study Orientalism and Modernism, Zhaoming Qian investigates the ways in which these three modernist poets received Chinese artistic notions and assimilated them into their literary masterpieces. With forty rare and previously unpublished photographs presented with accompanying analysis, this study reconstructs the three poets’ dialogue with the Chinese masters. In addition to examining Canto 49, "Nine Nectarines," and "Six Significant Landscapes," by Pound, Moore, and Stevens, respectively, Qian provides indispensable historical and cultural material never before recorded in a single work. The Modernist Response to Chinese Art pays long-overdue attention to the role of several early collections of Chinese art in England and America; it clarifies some common misconceptions about Confucianism and Daoism; it identifies in the modernist poets both linkage to and revolt against their predecessors’―and peers’―hegemonic Orientalism; and it intensifies awareness of modernist Orientalism not as a monolithic and constant conception but as a slippery and shifting process.
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( Chinese culture held a well-known fascination for moder...)
Chinese culture held a well-known fascination for modernist poets like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. What is less known but is made fully clear by Zhaoming Qian is the degree to which oriental culture made these poets the modernists they became. This ambitious and illuminating study shows that Orientalism, no less than French symbolism and Italian culture, is a constitutive element of Modernism. Consulting rare and unpublished materials, Qian traces Pound’s and Williams’s remarkable dialogues with the great Chinese poets—Qu Yuan, Li Bo, Wang Wei, and Bo Juyi—between 1913 and 1923. His investigation reveals that these exchanges contributed more than topical and thematic ideas to the Americans’ work and suggests that their progressively modernist style is directly linked to a steadily growing contact and affinity for similar Chinese styles. He demonstrates, for example, how such influences as the ethics of pictorial representation, the style of ellipsis, allusion, and juxtaposition, and the Taoist/Zen–Buddhist notion of nonbeing/being made their way into Pound’s pre-Fenollosan Chinese adaptations, Cathay, Lustra, and the Early Cantos, as well as Williams’s Sour Grapes and Spring and All. Developing a new interpretation of important work by Pound and Williams, Orientalism and Modernism fills a significant gap in accounts of American Modernism, which can be seen here for the first time in its truly multicultural character.
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Qian, Zhaoming was born on July 25, 1944 in Shanghai, China. Son of Shaozhong Qian and Wenjing Chen.
Bachelor, Beijing Foreign Studies University, 1967. Master of Arts, Beijing Foreign Studies University, 1980. Doctor of Philosophy, Tulane University, 1991.
Instructor English, Beijing Foreign Studies University, 1981-1983, lecturer English, managing editor, 1983-1986, associate director translation studies, 1985-1986. Instructor English and Asian literature Tulane University, New Orleans, 1986-1991. Assistant professor English University New Orleans, 1991-1996, associate professor English, 1996-2001, professor, 2001—2004, university research professor, 2004—2009, chancellors research professor, since 2009.
Y. C. Tang chair professor Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, since 2008.
( What role did Chinese art play in the poetic developmen...)
(What role did Chinese art play in the poetic development ...)
( Chinese culture held a well-known fascination for moder...)
Member Modern Language Association, South Control Modern Language Association, Ezra Pound Society, William Carlos Williams Society, Wallace Stevens Society, Marianne Moore Society.
Married May Fang Wang, January 1, 1969. Children: Yuyan, Yuli.