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Wai-lim YIP - Ph.D. (Princeton)

Primary Office: LIT 446
Primary Phone: (858) 534-3846
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Distinguished Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature: Classical and Modern Chinese Poetry; Comparative Poetics; Modernism East and West; Translation Theory.

Selected Publications:

Ezra Pound’s Cathay (Princeton Press, 1969)

Modern Chinese Poetry: 20 Poets from the Republic of China (Iowa U. Press,1970)

Hiding the Universe: Poems of Wang Wei  (Wushinsha-Grossman Press,1970)

Chinese Poetry: Major Modes and Genres
(U C Press/ Duke University Press,1976)

Thirty Years of Poetry
. The Ferry That Cannot Be Detained (poems). A Chinese Sea (lyrical prose). The
Reeds of Europa
(lyrical prose). Dialogues with Contemporary Chinese Painters. Boxed set of five books. Taipei: Tung-tai, 1987.

History, Hermeneutics and Aesthetics
(comparative literature studies). Taipei, Tung-tai, 1988.

T
he Daoist Theory of Knowledge," Poetics East and West, Toronto Semiotic Monograph Series, 4 (1988-89).

"Colonialism, Culture, Industry, and Desire," Con-Temporary, 52 (August 1990): 40-60.

"Condemned Humanity: Spatial Dialogues and Dialectics in the Paper Architectures of Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin," Arch (October 1990): 32-57.

Children's Seasons
(poems). Taipei: Children's Books Press, Ministry of Education, 1990.

"Hesitation Between: Lu Xun and the Art of Language in Wild Grass," Con-Temporary, 68 and 69 (1991-92).

Reading the Modern and the Postmodern: Meditations on Living Spaces and Cultural Spaces
. Taipei: Tatung, 1992.

Zhongguo Shixue (Chinese Poetics)
. Beijing: Sanlian, 1992. Expanded Zhongguo Shixue (Renminwenxuechubanse, 2006)

Lyrics from Shelters: Modern Chinese Poetry 1930-1950
. New York: Garland, 1992.

Diffusion of Distances: Dialogues between Chinese and Western Poetics
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Between Landscapes
(Poems in English). Santa Fe: Pennywhistle Press, 1994.

Daoist Aesthetics and Western Culture
(Beijing U. Press,2002)

"Singing in the Cultural Space of Dispersed Memory: The Art of Memory Portraiture in Ya Hsien's Poetry," Poetry Exploration, Beijing (1994).

"Demystifying Hsin-ta-ya: The Afterlife of Translation," Chung-wai Literary Monthly, 23.4, Taipei (September 1994).