Rise and Noise

Sun Jilin is Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the School of Culture and Communication, Shandong University, Weihai, China. His research interests mainly lie in Chinese contemporary literature and poetics, particularly modern Chinese cultural thoughts and avant-garde poetry. Lately he has been devoted to the research on poetic narratology. He has been Director of the Research Institute of Chinese Contemporary Literature of Shandong University as well as Director of the Research Center of Chinese Contemporary Poetry. He participated in the organization of the Cloud and Sail Poetry Association and witnessed the development of Chinese contemporary poetry from Misty Poetry to the Third-Generation poetry. He is a representative figure in the review of and the theoretical research on the Third-Generation poetry. His representative works include On the New Poetry Tide (1991), A Wandering Life: Zhu Xiang (1998), Inherent Eyes (2001), Rise and Noise: From Misty Poetry to the Third-Generation (2004), and Contemporary Poetry: Narration and Comments (2015), among others.

Cui Ying translated Part II and III of the book. She received her PhD from the City University of Hong Kong. She was a visiting scholar at Cornell University. She is Professor at the School of Translation Studies, Shandong University, Weihai, China. Her major research interests include translation, poetics, and linguistics, particularly advertisement translation and cognitive poetics. She has published papers in various journals such as Babel: International Journal for Translation, Perspectives: Studies in Translatology and JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation.

Huang Xiuguo translated Part I of the book. She is Associate Professor of American Literature at Shandong University, Weihai. She received her PhD from Fudan University. She is a member of the Translators’ Association of China. She has published the following books: From Community to Society: an Analysis of the Humanism in Snopes Trilogy (2018) and All-in-one English Handbook for Going Abroad (2007). Her other publications include “A Review of the Comparative Study of Mo Yan and Faulkner in China” and “From Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft: The Social Transformation as Reflected in The Hamlet”.