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Produced out of Chengdu by Wan Xia and others, Modern Poetry Materials for Internal Exchange is one of several examples of book-like publications that may or may not have been intended as serial journals to begin with.
It is a landmark publication, not least because of its inclusiveness at the national level and its visible ambition to chart literary history. By way of illustration, two sections in Modern Poetry Material are named after famous poems by (Beijing-based) Bei Dao and Haizi. A third section centers on Third Generation poets, a notion that emerged in Sichuan, quickly gained in scope, and is influential at a national level to this day. A fourth section is devoted to women poets. A fifth is devoted to Sylvia Plath, translated by Daozi. Plath's influence on contemporary Chinese poetry is hard to overstate.
Text in simplified characters (Jiantizi)