중국 詩의 위기와 正典化 —1990년대 말 2000년대 초 《詩刊》을 중심으로

Abstract

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Chinese poetry experienced a market economy. Chinese poetry has become one of the products that readers buy in the market. This puts Chinese poetry in a new situation where marketability is the basis for publication. However, the problem is that the creation and distribution of poetry is not determined solely by market logic. This is because the party and the government still intervened in the publication process. In 1998, a publication of poetry in Beijing called Poetry(《詩刊》) conducted a “the status survey of Chinese Poetry.” The purpose of the survey was to get out of the crisis of publications and poetry caused by marketization. However, the reaction of the critics was not favorable. Critics ridiculed the investigation as “chart manipulation”, and criticized Poetry for “doing what should be done and creating garbage” and “contaminates poetry and poets.” Nevertheless, this survey revealed that only masterpieces were consumed and re-evaluated, and it became difficult for newcomers to emerge. In other words, it showed the emergence of a situation where market demand canonize a poet's poetry.