This is an anonymous poem from a Chinese poet asking what the West wants of China: Anonymous – What do you want from us? When we were called “sick man of Asia”, we were called peril. When we billed to be the next superpower, we’re called the threat When we closed our doors, you smuggled [...]
Teach the classics; scorn the modern
“Since stories have been told from time immemorial in all human communities under all kinds of circumstances, we must find the distinctive vestiges that point to storytelling, rather than ‘telling of stories’.” – http://www.shuoshu.org/Chinese_Storytelling/History_and_milleu/The%20origins%20of%20professional%20storytelling.shtml I have been speaking to various people about spoken word poetry in China and it has become clear to me that [...]
