Mu Xinâs Nostalgic Poetic Salvation

Tianzhong Deng

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848883987_003

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At the 2015 Spring Festival Gala, Liu Huan, one of the most renowned Chinese pop singer-songwriters, sang Mu Xinâs short poem âThe Days of Yore Were Slowâ. The song became an immediate smash hit, and thrust Mu Xinâs poem into public prominence. Suddenly, everyone wanted to know âWho is this Mu Xin?â Mu Xin (1927-2011) was a Chinese painter, writer and poet, who was imprisoned three times during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1967-1977). Despite the hardships he suffered, he found intellectual salvation through his artistic works and, as a Chinese man of letters and self-taught Western humanist, Mu Xin found solace in his artistic creations. Through his artistic expression he transcended the harsh conditions he suffered. While following the Confucian nostalgic poetic tradition, he focused on the issue of creative self-expression, rather than dwelling on the memory of the poetic tradition of a âgolden pastâ. This chapter investigates the two types of nostalgia in Mu Xinâs works, namely, that of a remote past in human poetic tradition and the other of a recent past in the poetâs teenage life. Mu Xinâs nostalgia, as shown in his self-naming act, has a very obvious purpose of poetic construction. Detailed analysis on Mu Xinâs poem âThe Days of Yore Were Slowâ helps reveal Mu Xinâs reliance on nostalgia to construct a dynamic home of poetic dwelling.

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Exploring Nostalgia: Sad, Bad, Mad and Sweet

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Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2016

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