Ai Qing (Chinese: 艾青; pinyin: Ài Qīng; Wade–Giles: Ai Ch'ing, March 27, 1910 – May 5, 1996), born Jiang Zhenghan (Chinese: 蒋正涵; pinyin: Jiǎng Zhènghán) and styled Jiang Haicheng (Chinese: 蒋海澄; pinyin: Jiǎng Hǎichéng), was a 20th-century Chinese poet.

Mar 23, 2025 · Ai Qing (born March 27, 1910, Jinhua, Zhejiang province, China—died May 5, 1996, Beijing) was a Chinese poet whose free verse was influential in the development of xinshi (“new poetry”). The son of a well-to-do landowner, Ai …

THE POETIC THEORY AND PRACTICE OF AI QING: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE By Angela Jung Palandri Among contemporary Chinas veteran poets who have survived the Cultural Revolution, Ai Qing is perhaps one of the most popular and enduring. Having been branded a rightist in 1957, during the first political storm that crushed the blooming of the "Hundred ...

Ai Qing (1910-1996), a native of Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, was born in a landlord family but was breast-fed by a poor countrywoman. This special life experience exerted profound and major influence on the formation of Ai Qing's personality and his later poetry creation.

One of the most influential poets in Chinese history, Ai Qing is mostly unknown to American readers, but his work has shaped the nature of poetry in China for decades. Born between the fall of imperial Manchurian rule and the establishment of the Communist People’s Republic, Ai Qing was at one time an intimate of Mao Zedong.

Ai Qing (March 27, 1910-May 5, 1996), whose original name was Jiang Zhenghan (Chinese: 蒋正涵) and later went by Jiang Haicheng (Chinese:蒋海澄), was a famous Chinese poet who came to national prominence with his poem “Da Yan River—My Wet Nurse."

Nov 2, 2021 · Selected Poems by Ai Qing is a treasure of Chinese poetry. A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China’s most acclaimed poets—now available in English for the first time in a generation and featuring a foreword by his son, contemporary artist and activist Ai …

Ai Qing was a Chinese poet who made significant contributions to the development of free verse. He was born in 1910 in Zhejiang, China. In 1929, he went to France to study and stayed there until 1932.

Feb 24, 2024 · In the most suffocating years, Ai Qing never betrayed his beliefs; it was he who showed me the courage needed when aesthetics and morals are marginalized. Against the aesthetic mediocrity of despotism, poetry is the key to …