Wai-lim Yip

Chinese and Comparative Literature

Classical and Modern Chinese Poetry; Comparative Poetics; Modernism East and West; Translation Theory

Publications

• Ren Jian Wei Shi ("In-the-World TV Station) two hours Interview with Wai-lim Yip, May 24, 2013 broadcasted June 29-30, 2013.
• National Taiwan University Press, 2013, 734 pages 7. Book release in April 15: Dialogue with Modernist Novelist Wang Wenxing.
• "Adriatic Lyricism, a set of 8 poems (Croatia, Slovenia), THE EPOCH POETRY QUARTERLY, 174, March, 2013 6. Collected Poetry of Wai-lim Yip: 50 Years" in 2 volumes with a 60 page+ Introduction by Ke Qingming (Ko Ching-ming)
• "Chen Tingshi's Meditation on the Music of the Spheres in the Void of Grand Silence", ARTIST, 443, April, 2012 pp. 298-303.
• "Dances in the Empyrean and Eye-Excursions through the Eight Limits: Lou Guosong's Tensional Dialogues with the Modernist painters in the West", bilingual Introduction to Liu Guosong's 80th Birthday Retrospective Exhibition, March-June, 2012 (National Museum of Fine Arts, Taizhong, Taiwan, 2012 pp.28-51.
• Special Issue on Wai-lim Yip, published in TAIWAN, HONG KONG AND OVERSEAS CHINESE LITERATURE, ISSUE 104, March 2011, Swatow (Shantou) University, in partial correspondence with Conference on the Writings of Wai-lim Yip held in November 2011 in University of Macau.
• Content: Two essays by Wai-lim Yip (1) Immanence in Wallace Stevens' Poetry (2) Distant and Near, Some Theoretical Issues in Translating Pound into Chinese
• Two essays by Shi Liaoying (on The Influence of Yip's Daoist Aesthetics in the West), and Zhang Zhiguo "Recent Studies in the context of Yip's (w)holistic vision.
• "At once BEYOND and WITHIN Reality and History: Shang Qin's Subversive Strategies" RENDITIONS, a Chinese-English Translation Magazine, No.74, Hong Kong, 2010.
• Wai-lim Yip Collected Poetry: 50 years (Taipei, National Taiwan University Press, 2012) 734 pages.
• Daoist Aesthetics and Western Culture (Beijing U. Press, 2002).
• "Demystifying Hsin-ta-ya:  The Afterlife of Translation," Chung-wai Literary Monthly, 23.4, Taipei (September 1994).
• "Singing in the Cultural Space of Dispersed Memory: The Art of Memory Portraiture in Ya Hsien's Poetry," Poetry Exploration, Beijing (1994).
• Between Landscapes (Poems in English). Santa Fe:  Pennywhistle Press, 1994.
• Diffusion of Distances: Dialogues between Chinese and Western Poetics.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
• Lyrics from Shelters: Modern Chinese Poetry 1930-1950. New York: Garland, 1992.
• Zhongguo Shixue (Chinese Poetics). Beijing: Sanlian, 1992. Expanded Zhongguo Shixue (Renminwenxuechubanse, 2006).
• Reading the Modern and the Postmodern:  Meditations on Living Spaces and Cultural Spaces. Taipei: Tatung, 1992.
• "Hesitation Between: Lu Xun and the Art of Language in Wild Grass," Con-Temporary, 68 and 69 (1991-92).
• Children's Seasons (poems). Taipei: Children's Books Press, Ministry of Education, 1990.
• "Condemned Humanity: Spatial Dialogues and Dialectics in the Paper Architectures of Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin," Arch (October 1990): 32-57.
• "Colonialism, Culture, Industry, and Desire," Con-Temporary, 52 (August 1990): 40-60.
• The Daoist Theory of Knowledge," Poetics East and West, Toronto Semiotic Monograph Series, 4 (1988-89).
• History, Hermeneutics and Aesthetics (comparative literature studies).  Taipei, Tung-tai, 1988.
• The Reeds of Europa (lyrical prose). Dialogues with Contemporary Chinese Painters. Boxed set of five books. Taipei:  Tung-tai, 1987.
• Thirty Years of Poetry. The Ferry That Cannot Be Detained (poems). A Chinese Sea (lyrical prose).
• Chinese Poetry: Major Modes and Genres (UC Press/ Duke University Press, 1976).
• Hiding the Universe: Poems of Wang Wei (Wushinsha-Grossman Press, 1970).
• Modern Chinese Poetry: 20 Poets from the Republic of China (Iowa U.  Press, 1970).
• Ezra Pound’s Cathay (Princeton Press, 1969).

• Ph.D., Princeton University