Lower Body Poets

The Lower Body Poets ("lower body:" Chinese 下半身, pinyin: "xiaban shen" or "xià bàn shēn") are a movement of poets in China in the early 21st century. Among them are Yin Lichuan (尹丽川) and Shen Haobo (沈浩波). Maghiel van Crevel describes their work as "sit [ting] at the earthy end of the spectrum" of post Mao poetry in China, but strongly connected to older Chinese poetry and as "hip and disaffected" but still expressing "social concern". [Judith Vidal-Hall, "Behaving Badly", "Index on Censorship" number 4, 2006, p. 109.] Maghiel van Crevel, [http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/pubs/vancrevel.html The Horror of Being Ignored and the Pleasure of Being Left Alone: Notes on the Chinese Poetry Scene] , MCLC Resource Center (associated with "Modern Chinese Literature and Culture"), Ohio State University, 2003. The piece itself is dated "Beijing, December 2002". Accessed online 24 October 2007.]

Other Lower Body Poets are Li Hongqi (李红旗), Li Shijiang (李师江), Xuanyuanshike (轩辕轼轲), Wu Ang (巫昂), Duo Yu (朵渔), Ma Fei (马非}, and Zhu Jian (朱剑).

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