Mainland China continues to try to bring the "breakaway Republic" of 22 million (and the 13th largest economy in the world) of Taiwan back into the fold, but as editor and scholar Yeh shows in her ...

Bei Ling is the founder and editor of Tendency. His essay was translated from the Chinese by Denis Mair Compiled with a coherent view of history and certain political assumptions, “Frontier Taiwan,” ...

Poetry is revered in China, but is it still a living art form? In 2006, Han Han said modern poetry–and poets–are of “zero value.” Reverence for classical poetry begins when children are taught to ...

Yibing Huang's research and teaching interests cover a broad range, including modern and contemporary Chinese literature, art and culture; comparative studies of modernism and postmodernism in China ...

Since Sept. 22 the Chinese Cultural Festival has been in full swing. This weeklong event, ending Sept. 30, is free and open to the public. Today, the UA’s Poetry Center is holding the Chinese Moon ...

EZRA POUND, an American modernist, described poetry as “news that stays news”. The versions of classical Chinese poetry he published in “Cathay” in 1915 were a declaration that, in a world of Model ts ...

Microsoft recently taught its XiaoIce chatbot, a Chinese language conversational AI, how to interpret pictures as poems. We’re not sure if that counts as inspired writing, but it’s an interesting step ...