Chasing the Modern: The Twentieth-Century Life of Poet Xu Zhimo, Paperback - Tony S. Hsu

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This bilingual of Xu Zhimo's poetry has selected his most popular poems, to be shared amongst with all around the world.

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An argument that Modernism is a cognitive phenomenon rather than a cultural one.At the beginning of the twentieth century, poetry, music, and paint...

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