October 20, 2006

Michael Martin Day, China's Second World of Poetry: The Sichuan Avant-Garde, 1982-1992
available as pdf here.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Avant-Garde Poetry Nationwide – A Brief Overview (p. 18)
Chapter 2: Zhou Lunyou: Underground Poetry during the 1970s (35)
Chapter 3: The Born-Again Forest: An Early Publication (46)
Chapter 4: Macho Men or Poets Errant? (79)
Poetry on University Campuses (79)
A Third Generation (82)
Hu Dong, Wan Xia, and Macho Men (88)
Li Yawei (99)
Ma Song (103)
Finishing with University (107)
Chapter 5: A Confluence of Interests: The Institution of the Anti-Institutional (114)
Setting the Scene (114)
The Establishment of the Sichuan Young Poets Association (123)
The First Product of the Association: Modernists Federation (130)
Chapter 6: The Poetry of Modernists Federation (136)
Chapter 7: Make It New and Chinese Contemporary Experimental Poetry (169)
Growing Ties and a Setback (170)
Day By Day Make It New and the Makings of an Unofficial Avant-Garde Polemic (180)
Experimental Poetry: A Final Joint Action (195)
Chapter 8: Moving into the Public Eye: A Grand Exhibition (216)
Public Acceptance of Modernization and Marginalization (217)
The Poetry of Zhai Yongming (226)
The Poetry and Poetry Criticism of Ouyang Jianghe (238)
The Activities and Poetry of Liao Yiwu (248)
Chapter 9: Han Poetry, The Red Flag, and The Woman’s Poetry Paper (268)
Han Poetry (270)
The Red Flag (284)
The Woman’s Poetry Paper and Xichang (295)
Chapter 10: Not-Not (303)
Not-Not Theory, Name, and Formation (304)
The Poetry of Not-Not (322)
Chapter 11: After June Fourth 1989: In the Shadow of Death (347)
Liao Yiwu and (349)
Zhou Lunyou’s Prison Poetry (357)
Haizi: A New Martyr for the Avant-Garde (363)
New Journals and a New Poetry (369)
Chapter 12: A Struggle for Survival (383)
The Public Disappearance of the Avant-Garde (384)
Unofficial Poetry Journals – 1990-1992 (389)
The Poetry of 1990-1992 (401)
Epilogue (425)
Glossary of Chinese Names (with biographical details) (433)
Bibliography: Official Publications of Sichuan Poets (443)
Unofficial Publications of Sichuan Poets (488)
Secondary Sources and Translations (505)
Sichuan Unofficial Journal List and List of Major Sichuan Avant-Garde Poets and the Journals their work can be found in (562)
A Timeline For Chinese Poetry (565)