Hai, Zi
(Anhui 1964-1989 Selbstmord bei Shanhaiguan) : Dichter
Name Alternative(s)
Cha, Haisheng
Subjects
Index of Names : China
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Literature : China
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Periods : China : People's Republic (1949-)
Chronology Entries (3)
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| 1 | 1986 |
Hai Zi about Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau expresses his deep concerns about life and being in his writing. "I have been inspired by his ideas which have become my life long pursuit and ideal objective for poetic writing. Critics have valued this highly maintaining that turning to life and being marks a new beginning of Chinese poetry". |
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| 2 | 1986 |
Wei, An. From Life on earth [ID D29714]. Thomas Moran : In 1986, the poet Hai Zi introduced Wei An to Henry David Thoreau's Walden; inspired by the book. Wei An turned from poetry to prose in the style of Thoreau's observations. In the winter of 1986, Wei An read Xu Chi's translation of Walden, and the book changed his life. He discovered what he called Thoreau's "free, unrestrained, simple and open" organic style, and began composing in prose that, like Thoreau's, was poetic. He said the middle way fit him. As an American, I have an impulse to regard him as a naturalist, but his work resists this. For Wei An, the essence of Thoreau was not a "return to nature" but rather the "completion of man." Having grown up in the age of irony, I sometimes find it difficult to translate the unguarded expression of emotion and the direct discussion of truth, beauty, and goodness that are Wei An's idioms. His work reminds me, however, that our engagement with nature must necessarily be both romantic and scientific, and that the two cannot—or at least should not—be separated. |
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| 3 | 1989 | Death of Hai Zi. He was lying on the path of a train near Shanhaiguan and with him a bag with a Bible, Walden by Henry David Thoreau and a book of selected stories by Joseph Conrad. |
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