{"product_id":"for-a-splendid-sunny-apocalypse-paperback","title":"For a Splendid Sunny Apocalypse - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJiang Tao\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these self-mocking poems -- populated with youths and elders, cellphones and televisions -- Jiang Tao presents and dissects a discontent with the state of the world. The complex use of metaphor highlights his profound wit and poetic mastery, building subtle layers of satire that act as commentary and proposed remedy for society's flaws. But melancholy, nostalgia, dispassion, and the occasional lyricism also come into play as he explores the passage of time, city life, materialism, economic realities, and the difficulties of human communication and connection. Jiang Tao's verse is, as translator Josh Stenberg has written, \"a quintessential expression of urban malaise in contemporary China.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJiang Tao\u003c\/b\u003e is a Beijing-based poet, literary critic, translator, and historian, known as much for his wry, cerebral verse as his ground-breaking studies of Republican (1911-49) literature. An Associate Professor at Peking University, he has held literary residencies in Japan, Taiwan, and the United States. He was born in Tianjin in 1970, and studied first at Tsinghua University, only to abandon biomedical engineering for a PhD in Chinese literature at Peking University, where he also began teaching in 2002. He wrote poetry as a student, and was editor of the folk poetry journals \u003ci\u003eOffset\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePoetry Communications\u003c\/i\u003e. His first collection \u003ci\u003eBird Sutras\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2005, and he has since published \u003ci\u003eFour Poems\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMourning for Sometimes\u003c\/i\u003e. He won the Liu Li'an Prize for Poetry in 1997. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJosh Stenberg is a Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMinority Stages: Sino-Indonesian Performance\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand Public Display\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and an upcoming book on Hokkien theatre, as well as the editor of \u003ci\u003eIrina's Hat: New Short Stories from China\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and \u003ci\u003eKunqu Masters on Chinese Theatrical Performance\u003c\/i\u003e (2022). He translated two volumes of short fiction by Nanjing author Su Tong, short fiction by PRC, Taiwanese, and Southeast Asian Chinese authors, and numerous works of spoken and traditional Chinese theatre. His fiction and poetry have been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Antigonish Review, The New Quarterly, CV2, The Dalhousie Review\u003c\/i\u003e and other literary journals. He has been a fellow of Fulbright Taiwan, the Center for Chinese Studies (National Central Library), the International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden), and the Vermont Studio Centre\/Luce Foundation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.8 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 25, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763666157856,"sku":"9781938890222","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/97e0b571cd8f2663b3ffa542a39cd06c.webp?v=1780238561","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/for-a-splendid-sunny-apocalypse-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}