Shu Ting

Shu Ting ( Chinese 舒婷 , Pinyin Shū Tíng ; * 1952 in Jinjiang ) is a Chinese poet and author who wrote to the "transfigured poets" ( 朦朧詩 / 朦胧诗 , Ménglóng Shī , English Misty Poets - " Obscure poetry , Menglong poetry, Hermetic Poetry ”), a Chinese group of modern poets .

Her real name is Gong Peiyu ( Chinese 龚佩瑜 , Pinyin Gōng Pèiyú ).

biography

Shu Ting was born the second of three children. Her father was killed in the course of the suppression of the Hundred Flower Movement ( Chinese 百花運動 / 百花运动 , Pinyin bǎihuā yùndòng ), the so-called " anti-right movement " ( Chinese 反右運動 / 反右运动 , Pinyin Fǎn Yòu Yùndòng ) exiled to a mountain village. As a result, her parents' marriage failed and Shu Ting moved to Xiamen without her father . Without finishing school, she was sent to western Fujian as part of the 1969 Cultural Revolution , where she acquired an interest in poetry while working as a washerwoman and factory worker.

Between 1979 and 1982, Shu Ting published more than a hundred poems. During this time she came into contact with Gu Cheng . She sees herself as part of the third generation of Chinese poets . Abroad, she gained experience in the United States and Germany .

The main topics that Shu Ting deals with in her poems (and since the 1990s also in novels ) include sexism , the criticism of patriarchy and traditions that curtail women's rights. She doesn't see herself as a feminist, however .

Shu Ting is an atheist .

Web links

Literature by and about Shu Ting in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Academy of American Poets: A Brief Guide to Misty Poets | Academy of American Poets. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b Lily Xiao Hong Lee: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 2: Twentieth Century . Routledge, 2016, ISBN 978-1-315-49923-9 ( google.at [accessed October 3, 2019]).
^ ^A ^b Julia C. Lin: Twentieth-century Chinese Women's Poetry: An Anthology: An Anthology . Routledge, 2014, ISBN 978-1-317-45320-8 ( google.at [accessed October 3, 2019]).
↑ ^a ^b Hui Wu: Once Iron Girls: Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women . Rowman & Littlefield, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7391-3421-4 ( google.at [accessed October 3, 2019]).

personal data
SURNAME	Ting, Shu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	舒婷 (traditional Chinese); Shū Tíng (Pinyin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	chinese poet
DATE OF BIRTH	1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jinjiang , China

[1] Academy of American Poets: A Brief Guide to Misty Poets | Academy of American Poets. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .

[:0-2] Lily Xiao Hong Lee: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 2: Twentieth Century . Routledge, 2016, ISBN 978-1-315-49923-9 ( google.at [accessed October 3, 2019]).

[:1-3] A ^b Julia C. Lin: Twentieth-century Chinese Women's Poetry: An Anthology: An Anthology . Routledge, 2014, ISBN 978-1-317-45320-8 ( google.at [accessed October 3, 2019]).

[:2-4] Hui Wu: Once Iron Girls: Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women . Rowman & Littlefield, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7391-3421-4 ( google.at [accessed October 3, 2019]).