Regional Variations in Aesthetics and Ideology in Contemporary Chinese Poetry

Abstract

There are some drawbacks in evaluating literature purely in terms of its development and its historical setting, and the remedies may lie in cultural geography. The author argues in this paper that with the development of contemporary Chinese poetry, regional culture and aesthetics in poetry have also gradually developed. Contemporary poetry in recent years exhibits different regional ideologies. The cultural attitudes and poetry sensibility in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong and the southwest areas are completely different from each other. These differences in regional aesthetics enable a diversified development of contemporary Chinese poetry.

Keywords

contemporary Chinese poetry / cultural geography / regional aesthetics / regional ideology

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2014 Higher Education Press and Brill