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What role did Chinese art play in the poetic development of Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens? How could they share Chinese artists' Dao, an aesthetic held to be beyond verbal representation? In this sequel to """"Orientalism and Modernism"""", Zhaoming Qian investigates the ways in which these three modernist poets received Chinese artistic notions and assimilated them into their literary masterpieces. With 40 rare and previously unpublished photographs presented with accompanying analysis, this study reconstructs the three poets' dialogue with the Chinese masters. In addition to examining """"Canto 49"""", """"Nine Nectarines"""" and """"Six Significant Landscapes"""", by Pound, Moore and Stevens respectively, Qian provides additional historical and cultural material. """"The Modernist Response to Chinese Art"""" pays long-overdue attention to the role of several early collections of Chinese art in England and America; it clarifies some common misconceptions about Confucianism and Daoism; it identifies in the modernist poets both linkage to and revolt against their predecessors' - and peers' - hegemonic Orientalism; and it intensifies awareness of modernist Orientalism not as a monolithic and constant conception, but as a slippery and shifting process.

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The Modernist Response to Chinese Art is a work of both erudition and sympathy that reveals the root of modernist poets' otherwise baffling interest in and use of Chinese art. Most impressive, perhaps, is the depth of their embrace of it, as Qian has so convincingly documented. - Patricia C. Willis, Yale University, author of Marianne Moore; Qian provides a scrupulously scholarly and valuable study - a goldmine of important and useful facts and insights. - Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University, author of Twenty-first-Century Modernism: The New Poetics; Enormously impressive, The Modernist Response to Chinese Art will be highly useful to all levels of readers in Pound, Moore, and Stevens, and absolutely indispensable to scholars sorting out the development of the three poets' work. - Ronald Bush, St. John's College, Oxford, author of The Genesis of Ezra Pound's Cantos

The Modernist Response to Chinese Art is a work of both erudition and sympathy that reveals the root of modernist poets' otherwise baffling interest in and use of Chinese art. Most impressive, perhaps, is the depth of their embrace of it, as Qian has so convincingly documented. - Patricia C. Willis, Yale University, author of Marianne Moore; Qian provides a scrupulously scholarly and valuable study - a goldmine of important and useful facts and insights. - Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University, author of Twenty-first-Century Modernism: The New Poetics; Enormously impressive, The Modernist Response to Chinese Art will be highly useful to all levels of readers in Pound, Moore, and Stevens, and absolutely indispensable to scholars sorting out the development of the three poets' work. - Ronald Bush, St. John's College, Oxford, author of The Genesis of Ezra Pound's Cantos

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Zhaoming Qian, Professor of English at the University of New Orleans, is the author of Orientalism and Modernism: The Legacy of China in Pound and Williams and the editor of Ezra Pound and China.

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