Articles for Chinese Poetry

Submission event for Youth Poetry Festival launched
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Submission event for Youth Poetry Festival launched

China Daily  

Jidi Majia, former vice-president of the China Writers Association, attends the news conference announcing the launch of the 41st Youth Poetry Festival submission event. The 41st Youth Poetry Festival submission event was officially launched, as announced at a news conference in Beijing on Sunday. "We hope that young poets from each generation can showcase their talents through the platform of …

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A Symphony of Paper and Poetry: Chinese Drama Blends Western Music with Peking Opera in Captivating Performance
2 months, 3 weeks ago

A Symphony of Paper and Poetry: Chinese Drama Blends Western Music with Peking Opera in Captivating Performance

China Daily  

A Chinese drama blends Western classical music with elements of Chinese culture to tell the legend of the legendary inventor of paper-making. The show, performed in London, features two actors dressed in Peking Opera attire delivering their recitative lines in the traditional style, accompanied by an orchestra performing Richard Strauss's symphonic poem Ein Heldenleben.

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Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Exhibition expounds on 'vision and verse' in Chinese art

China Daily  

Visitors appreciate the artworks of the exhibition Vision and Verse: The Poetry of Chinese Painting at the Met Fifth Avenue galleries in New York. SU QIANG/CHINA DAILY Literati painting Self-expression, filtered through literary sensibilities, was at the heart of a unique Chinese art phenomenon known as "the literati painting", of which Zhao Mengfu was a powerful exponent. Zhao came up …

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Renowned poet Yeh Chia-ying gives rare speech at Nankai University
1 year, 2 months ago

Renowned poet Yeh Chia-ying gives rare speech at Nankai University

China Daily  

Renowned Chinese poetry scholar Yeh Chia-ying, aged 100, made a rare appearance at Nankai University during an international symposium on teaching Chinese poetry on Oct 15. On Sunday, renowned Chinese poetry scholar Yeh Chia-ying, aged 100, made a rare appearance at Nankai University during an international symposium on teaching Chinese poetry. When Yeh concluded her speech, the entire audience rose …

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Renowned poet Yeh Chia-ying gives rare speech at Nankai University
1 year, 2 months ago

Renowned poet Yeh Chia-ying gives rare speech at Nankai University

China Daily  

Renowned Chinese poetry scholar Yeh Chia-ying, aged 100, made a rare appearance at Nankai University during an international symposium on teaching Chinese poetry on Oct 15. On Sunday, renowned Chinese poetry scholar Yeh Chia-ying, aged 100, made a rare appearance at Nankai University during an international symposium on teaching Chinese poetry. When Yeh concluded her speech, the entire audience rose …

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A Russian who is well-versed in Chinese
1 year, 9 months ago

A Russian who is well-versed in Chinese

China Daily  

Anastasia Podareva is a fan of the clothes and accessories of the Tibetan people. Growing up, she wrote many poems in both Russian and English and, after she came to China to study in 2013, the world of Chinese poetry opened up before her. She soon gave herself a poetic Chinese name, Tang Xilan, with "tang" alluding to the Tang …

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A Russian who is well-versed in Chinese
1 year, 9 months ago

A Russian who is well-versed in Chinese

China Daily  

Anastasia Podareva is a fan of the clothes and accessories of the Tibetan people. Growing up, she wrote many poems in both Russian and English and, after she came to China to study in 2013, the world of Chinese poetry opened up before her. She soon gave herself a poetic Chinese name, Tang Xilan, with "tang" alluding to the Tang …

China Russia Russian Chinese Poetry Podareva
A Russian who is well-versed in Chinese
1 year, 9 months ago

A Russian who is well-versed in Chinese

China Daily  

Anastasia Podareva participates in the filming of a video to promote tourism in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. Besides sharing new Chinese poems that she'd written, Podareva would also produce content based on cultural comparisons, for example, how Yesenin and Li Bai, one of China's greatest poets from the Tang Dynasty, depicted winter. That said, being a young social media content creator, …

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Giving life to poetry
4 years, 2 months ago

Giving life to poetry

China Daily  

The documentary film Like the Dyer's Hand retraces the turbulent experiences of Florence Chia-ying Yeh and her lifetime devotion to the study of Chinese poetry. Like the Dyer's Hand, a documentary film on scholar Florence Chia-ying Yeh, made its global debut on Friday, one day ahead of the 101st anniversary of Nankai University in Tianjin. Sun Xianghui, curator of the …

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Giving life to poetry
4 years, 2 months ago

Giving life to poetry

China Daily  

The documentary film Like the Dyer's Hand retraces the turbulent experiences of Florence Chia-ying Yeh and her lifetime devotion to the study of Chinese poetry. Like the Dyer's Hand, a documentary film on scholar Florence Chia-ying Yeh, made its global debut on Friday, one day ahead of the 101st anniversary of Nankai University in Tianjin. Sun Xianghui, curator of the …

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Giving life to poetry
4 years, 2 months ago

Giving life to poetry

China Daily  

She graduated in her 20s from Fu Jen Catholic University, which later became part of Beijing Normal University, and started teaching literature at a secondary school. In 1966, the family moved to the United States, where Yeh taught Chinese poetry first at Michigan State University and then at Harvard University. "Enormous sorrow and hardship as well as devotion to poetry …

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Giving life to poetry
4 years, 2 months ago

Giving life to poetry

China Daily  

The documentary film Like the Dyer's Hand retraces the turbulent experiences of Florence Chia-ying Yeh and her lifetime devotion to the study of Chinese poetry. Like the Dyer's Hand, a documentary film on scholar Florence Chia-ying Yeh, made its global debut on Friday, one day ahead of the 101st anniversary of Nankai University in Tianjin. Sun Xianghui, curator of the …

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