The Lower Body Poets ("lower body:" Chinese 下半身, pinyin: xiaban shen or xià bàn shēn) are a movement of poets in China in the early 21st century. Among them are Yin Lichuan (尹丽川) and Shen Haobo (沈浩波). Maghiel van Crevel describes their work as "sit[ting] at the earthy end of the spectrum" of post Mao poetry in China, but strongly connected to older Chinese poetry and as "hip and disaffected" but still expressing "social concern".[1][2]

Other Lower Body Poets are Li Hongqi (李红旗), Li Shijiang (李师江), Xuanyuanshike (轩辕轼轲), Wu Ang (巫昂), Duo Yu (朵渔), Ma Fei (马非), and Zhu Jian (朱剑).[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Judith Vidal-Hall, "Behaving Badly", Index on Censorship number 4, 2006, p. 109.
  2. ^ a b Maghiel van Crevel, The Horror of Being Ignored and the Pleasure of Being Left Alone: Notes on the Chinese Poetry Scene, MCLC Resource Center (associated with Modern Chinese Literature and Culture), Ohio State University, 2003. The piece itself is dated "Beijing, December 2002". Accessed online 24 October 2007.
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