The Foundation of the People's Republic of China Period

In the 1950s, an increasingly large influence was felt from Russian poets like Pushkin, Nekrasov, Blok, Bunin, Mayakovsk, Lukashenko and Akhmatova. In the 1960s, tensions flared between the two countries, and Chairman Mao advocated the combination of classical and folk poetry, and revolutionary realism and romanticism. Poetry about workers, farmers and soldiers was dominant during this period.

The Reform and Opening up Period

Chinese poetry of the 1980s entered into a golden age, with interest again high in Western forms. It became full of symbolism, existentialism, structuralism, feminism and deconstructionalism. Folk poetry based on local circumstances and using Western structure became popular with younger readers at this time.

The Three Roles Chinese Poetry Plays

Communicating with the world

After the Cultural Revolution, some famous poets returned to the poetry community such as Ai Qing, Niu Han, Cai Qijiao, Mu Dan, and Lv Yuan. A group of young poets focused on humanity, ego, sex and stream of consciousness. "Misty poetry" was born and had a huge influence upon the Chinese poetry community. Until the end of the last century, some modern writers' emphasis on Western identification of Chinese poetry evoked patriotism and "folk writing" became popular in the late 1990s, with modern poetry losing popularity.

Facing the reality, the main cultural role of Chinese poetry community.

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