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    A Maze of Stars and Spring Water
    A Maze of Stars and Spring Water
    A Maze of Stars and Spring Water
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    A Maze of Stars and Spring Water

    By Bing Xin

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    A Maze of Stars & Spring Water is a collection of poems directly inspired by the poetic forms that emerged after the May Fourth Movement. Specifically, the “mini poem,” which by Bing Xin’s own admission, hadn’t quite existed before she started experimenting with its form. Inspired by Tagore’s Stray Birds, she started gathering her “scattered and fragmentary thoughts,” not originally intended as poetry, but which would eventually become the present collection. The popularity of the poems and the distinction of the form led the genre to become known as the “Bingxin style.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateMay 6, 2014
    ISBN9781476774978
    A Maze of Stars and Spring Water
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    Bing Xin

    Bing Xin is the pen name of Xie Wanying (October 5, 1900–February 28, 1999), who was a distinguished writer, translator, poet, and social activist who was active in the May 4th Movement. She is one of China’s most prolific writers of the twentieth century. Her work in both prose and poetry were literary achievements in their time and she was heavily influential to Chinese writers who emerged in the decades that followed.

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      繁星·春水:汉英对照/冰心著;(美)鲍贵思(Boynton, G.M.),(美)凯利(Cayley, J.)译.——南京:译林出版社,2011.3

      (双语译林)

      ISBN 978-7-5447-1662-8

      Ⅰ.① 繁… Ⅱ.① 冰… ② 鲍… ③ 凯… Ⅲ.① 英语-汉语-对照读物 ②诗歌-作品集-中国-现代 Ⅳ.① H319.4: I

      中国版本图书馆CIP数据核字(2011)第020492号

      English translation copyright © John Cayley, Grace Boynton

      书 名 繁星·春水

      作 者 冰 心

      译 者 ［美］凯利 ［美］鲍贵思

      插 图 瞿 佳

      责任编辑 田 智

      出版发行 凤凰出版传媒集团 凤凰出版传媒股份有限公司 译林出版社

      集团地址 南京市湖南路1号A楼,邮编:210009

      集团网址 http://www.ppm.cn

      出版社地址 南京市湖南路1号A楼,邮编:210009

      电子信箱 yilin@yilin.com

      出版社网址 http://www.yilin.com

      版 次 2011年3月第1版 2011年3月第1次印刷

      书 号 ISBN 978-7-5447-1662-8

      Contents

      ■ How I Wrote A Maze of Stars and Spring Water

      ■ Autobiographical Outline

      A Maze of Stars

      Spring Water

      ■ How I Wrote A Maze of Stars and Spring Water

      Amongst the many forms of New Poetry which arose after the May the Fourth Movement can be counted the so-called short poem or mini poem. This type of poem can be very short, the shortest having only two lines. All the pieces in my collections—A Maze of Stars and Spring Water—are short poems and so many people consider me to be the first to have written in this way. When I think it over now, I cannot remember whether I had read many mini poems by my contemporaries or not. In any case, when I wrote A Maze of Stars and Spring Water, I was not writing poetry. All I did—under the influence of Tagore's Stray Birds—was to gather together my scattered and fragmentary thoughts.

      What happened was this. At the time of the May the Fourth Movement I was still studying at university. In the wake of the New Literature, all sorts of new periodicals were appearing like flowers after spring rain. Not only did these carry diatribes against imperialism and feudalism, there were also introductions to and criticism of foreign literature, as well as short stories, new poetry, and prose, all in the vernacular. Then, our thirst for knowledge was at its height, and we greedly devoured these periodicals outside our lessons or even hid them under our textbooks, stealing glances at them openly. If we happened upon some sentence which particularly pleased us we'd note it in a few obliquewords or phrases in the margins of our notebooks. Soon this became a habit and sometimes we wrote out random jottings about what we felt or remembered of where we'd been and what we'd done, obliquely in a few words or phrases. The days mounted up and these notes accumulated. Although each one might only be three to five lines long, when you arranged them in sequence, they did, after all, seem to relate to your circumstances. Later, when you looked these words over they conjured up a true and intimate picture—you couldn't give them up.

      Meanwhile in some magazine or other I happened to see serialized Zheng Zhenduo's translation of Tagore's Stray Birds. (Tagore's lyrics make use of forms from folk poetry and song. Their language is both simple and beautiful, has a strong musical quality, and is deeply imbued with

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