An Qi (), pseudonym of Huang Jiangpin () (

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1969), is a Chinese female poet, exponent of the avant-garde known in China as the "Middle Generation," including poets born in the 1960s.

Biography

Huang Jiangpin graduated from Zhangzhou Teachers College. She started working as a teacher and, after having achieved some success with the publication of her first poems, decided to become a full-time poet with the pseudonym of An Qi. Her first collections of poems were ''Songs: Red Moon on Water'', ''Running Railings'', and ''Living in the Manner of Duras''. After 1998, she emerged as a spokesperson for the "Middle Generation" and its claims that younger poets had been neglected and marginalized by the Chinese literary establishment, and co-edited with Yuan Cun and Huang Lihai ''Complete Works by the Middle Generation Poets''. She also became the editor of the

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magazine ''Poetry Monthly''.

Poetic style

Her poems have been praised for their attention to the details of daily life. On the other hand, she is part of an avant-garde focusing "on how to tear down the conventional boundaries of poetic language in order to create a sense of freedom without having to make sense of the random fragments contained within the lines." The lack of structure is intentional, and reflects An Qi's fragmented view of reality. An Qi has acknowledged in several works her debt to

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and to the classical Chinese novel ''

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'' by

Cao Xueqin Cáo Xuěqín ( ; ); (4 April 1710 — 10 June 1765)Briggs, Asa (ed.) (1989) ''The Longman Encyclopedia'', Longman, was a Chinese writer during the Qing dynasty. He is best known as the author of ''Dream of the Red Chamber'', one of the Four G ...

. The combination of these two sources led An Qi to a fatalistic view of human existence.

References

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