{"id":1748,"date":"2025-01-02T13:23:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T15:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seangolden.ie\/wp\/?page_id=1748"},"modified":"2025-07-28T18:42:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T20:42:23","slug":"selected-poems-by-gu-cheng","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/seangolden.ie\/wp\/selected-poems-by-gu-cheng\/","title":{"rendered":"Selected Poems by Gu Cheng (1990, 1996)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1749 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/seangolden.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Picture1-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seangolden.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Picture1-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/seangolden.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Picture1-662x1024.jpg 662w, https:\/\/seangolden.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Picture1-768x1188.jpg 768w, https:\/\/seangolden.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Picture1.jpg 838w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/>Selected Poems<\/em> by Gu Cheng [\u987e\u57ce]<\/h2>\n<p>Edited by Se\u00e1n Golden and Chu Chiyu<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong: \u200e Chinese University Press, 1990, 1996<\/p>\n<p>Gu Cheng was part of the group which founded the seminal non-official literary journal <em>Today<\/em> during the 1979-80 Democracy Wall movement, or &#8216;Beijing Spring&#8217;, of which his own work became emblematic. A major talent, his poety stands as a reminder of the quality of work produced in China in the mid-1980s, despite sporadic official attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Gu Cheng left China in 1987, settling finally in New Zealand, where he continued to experiment with poetic form and content. His personal life, however, took a tragic turn, culminating in his suicide and the death of his wife in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;&#8230; an important reference work for those interested in both Gu Cheng&#8217;s poetry and his idiosyncratic ideals.&#8217;\u00a0<em>\u2014The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;&#8230; a most distinctive voice that will be remembered for a long time to come.&#8217;\u00a0<em>\u2014World Literature Today<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;&#8230;this is an admirably produced book&#8230;[A]ll the signs are that this is a publishing enterprise of high quality scrupulously undertaken.&#8217;\u00a0<em>\u2014South China Morning Post<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ISBN-10: \u200e 962725505X<\/p>\n<p>ISBN-13: \u200e 978-9627255055<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selected Poems by Gu Cheng [\u987e\u57ce] Edited by Se\u00e1n Golden and Chu Chiyu Hong Kong: \u200e Chinese University Press, 1990, 1996 Gu Cheng was part of the group which founded the seminal non-official literary journal Today during the 1979-80 Democracy Wall movement, or &#8216;Beijing Spring&#8217;, of which his own work became emblematic. A major talent, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1748","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seangolden.ie\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seangolden.ie\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seangolden.ie\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seangolden.ie\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seangolden.ie\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/seangolden.ie\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1796,"href":"https:\/\/seangolden.ie\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1748\/revisions\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seangolden.ie\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}