Most of Zha's poems were written during the late 1930s and 1940s. His poetry, which is characterised by impassioned speculation, abstract sensuality, and occasionally, restrained irony, is the foremost example of Chinese new vernacular verse absorbing modern Western techniques. Zha was a professed admirer of W. H. Auden, W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. He studied their poetry at Southwest Associated University under William Empson, himself a leading modernist poet. On the other hand, the patriotism[citation needed] and the compassion for the suffering and needy in his poetry fall easily in line with a great tradition in Chinese poetry.
Zha had to give up poetry writing several years after the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, and he turned to literary translation, for which he is also renowned. His works in this respect include the Chinese translations of Lord Byron's Don Juan and Aleksandr Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. It was not until 1976 that Zha resumed writing poetry. He produced 27 poems that year; highly regarded among them were several moving elegy-style pieces, prophetic of his sudden death of a heart attack in early 1977.
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this, article, does, cite, sources, please, help, improve, this, article, adding, citations, reliable, sources, unsourced, material, challenged, removed, find, sources, news, newspapers, books, scholar, jstor, december, 2009, learn, when, remove, this, message. This article does not cite any sources Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Mu Dan news newspapers books scholar JSTOR December 2009 Learn how and when to remove this message In this Chinese name the family name is Zha Zha Liangzheng simplified Chinese 查良铮 traditional Chinese 查良錚 pinyin Zha Liangzheng 5 April 1918 26 February 1977 better known by his pen name Mu Dan Chinese 穆旦 pinyin Mu Dan was a Chinese poet Born in Tianjin he attended Tsinghua University at the age of 17 and graduated from National Southwestern Associated University in 1940 He served as an assistant lecturer of English at his alma mater for about two years During World War II he joined the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Burma and fought alongside the Allied forces against the Japanese After the war ended he attended the University of Chicago where he obtained a master s degree in English literature He was a distant paternal relative of the wuxia novelist Louis Cha citation needed Most of Zha s poems were written during the late 1930s and 1940s His poetry which is characterised by impassioned speculation abstract sensuality and occasionally restrained irony is the foremost example of Chinese new vernacular verse absorbing modern Western techniques Zha was a professed admirer of W H Auden W B Yeats and T S Eliot He studied their poetry at Southwest Associated University under William Empson himself a leading modernist poet On the other hand the patriotism citation needed and the compassion for the suffering and needy in his poetry fall easily in line with a great tradition in Chinese poetry Zha had to give up poetry writing several years after the establishment of the People s Republic of China in 1949 and he turned to literary translation for which he is also renowned His works in this respect include the Chinese translations of Lord Byron s Don Juan and Aleksandr Pushkin s Eugene Onegin It was not until 1976 that Zha resumed writing poetry He produced 27 poems that year highly regarded among them were several moving elegy style pieces prophetic of his sudden death of a heart attack in early 1977 External links edit nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Mu Dan Mu Dan Britannica nbsp nbsp This Chinese translator related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Mu Dan amp oldid 1182456283, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
