LEADER 03710nam 2200637 450 001 9910812806203321 005 20210513214831.0 010 $a0-231-53852-9 024 7 $a10.7312/yang16996 035 $a(CKB)3710000000329246 035 $a(EBL)1912256 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001405860 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11799281 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001405860 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11393717 035 $a(PQKB)11271204 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001248725 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1912256 035 $a(DE-B1597)458561 035 $a(OCoLC)979620837 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231538527 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1912256 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11012194 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL688420 035 $a(OCoLC)899240297 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000329246 100 $a20150202h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMemories of Mount Qilai $ethe education of a young poet /$fYang Mu ; translated by John Balcom and Yingtsih Balcom 210 1$aNew York, New York ;$aWest Sussex, England :$cColumbia University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (453 p.) 225 1 $aModern Chinese Literature from Taiwan 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-322-57138-4 311 0 $a0-231-16996-5 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tTRANSLATOR ' S PREFACE --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tMountain Wind and Ocean Rain --$tReturn to Degree Zero --$tLong Ago, When We Started 330 $aHualien, on the Pacific coast of eastern Taiwan, and its mountains, especially Mount Qilai, were deeply inspirational for the young poet Yang Mu. A place of immense natural beauty and cultural heterogeneity, the city was also a site of extensive social, political, and cultural change in the twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and the American bombings of World War II to the Chinese civil war, the White Terror, and the Cold War. Taken as a whole, these evocative and allusive autobiographical essays provide a personal response to history as Taiwan transitioned from a Japanese colony to the Republic of China. Yang Mu recounts his childhood experiences under the Japanese, life in the mountains in proximity to indigenous people as his family took refuge from the American bombings, his initial encounters and cultural conflicts with Nationalist soldiers recently arrived from mainland China, the subsequent activities of the Nationalist government to consolidate power, and the island's burgeoning new manufacturing society. Nevertheless, throughout those early years, Yang Mu remained anchored by a sense of place on Taiwan's eastern coast and amid its coastal mountains, over which stands Mount Qilai like a guardian spirit. This was the formative milieu of the young poet. Yang Mu seized on verse to develop a distinct persona and draw meaning from the currents of change reshuffling his world. These eloquent essays create an exciting, subjective realm meant to transcend the personal and historical limitations of the individual and the end of culture, "plundered and polluted by politics and industry long ago." 410 0$aModern Chinese literature from Taiwan. 606 $aPoets, Chinese$zTaiwan$y20th century$vBiography 615 0$aPoets, Chinese 676 $a895.11/52 B 700 $aYang$b Mu$f1940-$0877751 702 $aBalcom$b John 702 $aBalcom$b Yingtsih 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812806203321 996 $aMemories of Mount Qilai$93935293 997 $aUNINA