Lap Lam, "Cultural Transplantation: The Writing of Classical Chinese Poetry in Colonial Singapore 1887-1945 "
English | ISBN: 9004538917 | 2024 | 422 pages | PDF | 14 MB
English | ISBN: 9004538917 | 2024 | 422 pages | PDF | 14 MB
This book examines how classical Chinese poetry took root and developed in colonial Singapore, integrating both traditional and new literary features to express in a lyrical way the sojourner’s sentiments and local consciousness of Chinese immigrant poets.