Shu Ting

Shu Ting grew up in Jinjiang, Fujian. However, as a teenager her father was accused of ideological aberrance and moved her to the countryside.{{cite web|date=2006-01-30|title=The Jackdaw's Nest: Shu Ting|url=http://hedgeguard.blogspot.com/2006/01/shu-ting.html|publisher=Hedgeguard.blogspot.com|accessdate=2010-10-19}} Upon her return to Fujian, she took up job positions at a cement factory, a textile mill, and a lightbulb factory.{{cite web|title=Shu Ting|url=http://web.whittier.edu/academic/english/chinese/shuting.htm|url-status=dead|publisher=Web.whittier.edu|accessdate=2010-10-19|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927155410/http://web.whittier.edu/academic/english/chinese/shuting.htm|archivedate=2011-09-27}}

She began to write poetry and, in 1979, published her first poem{{Cite web|date=2011-09-27|title=Shu Ting|url=http://web.whittier.edu/academic/english/chinese/shuting.htm|access-date=2021-04-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927155410/http://web.whittier.edu/academic/english/chinese/shuting.htm|archive-date=2011-09-27}} and was one of the first people to have her work published in the underground journal Jīntiān (Today).{{Cite journal|last=Lingenfelter|first=Andrea|title=Reviewed Work(s): Selected Poems. An Authorized Collection by Eva Hung|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41490766|journal=Modern Chinese Literature|volume=9| issue = 2 (Fall 1996)|pages=395–397|jstor=41490766}} She became part of the group known as the Misty Poets. Other Misty Poets include Bei Dao, Gu Cheng, Fei Ye, and Duo Duo. The journal, Jīntiān ran from 1978 to 1980 until Deng Xiaoping, a new Chinese statesman halted the publication due to suspicions of ideological nonconformity.{{Cite web|title=Road to East Asia|url=http://www.yorku.ca/iwai/three/martinj.htm|access-date=2021-04-25|website=www.yorku.ca}}

In the early 1980s, she achieved prominence as the leading female representative of the Misty Poets. She was the only Misty Poet given official government support. Because of this she worked clandestinely with other poets such as Gu Cheng and Bei Dao.{{Cite journal|last=Kubin|first=Wolfgang|date=1988|title=Writing with your Body: Literature as a Wound – Remarks on the Poetry of Shu Ting|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41490632|journal=Modern Chinese Literature|volume=4|issue=1/2|pages=149–162|jstor=41490632|issn=8755-8963}} Her first collection, Shuangwei Chuan appeared in 1982, as did a joint-collection with Gu Cheng.

She married her husband Zhongyi Chen in 1982.

She was asked to join the official Chinese Writers' Association, and won the National Outstanding Poetry Award in 1981 and 1983.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aoH11JVHs4AC&dq=shu+ting&pg=PT614|title=The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry: From Ancient to Contemporary, The Full 3000-Year Tradition|publisher=Random House|year=2010|isbn=978-0-307-48147-4|editor1=Tony Barnstone|editor2=Chou Ping}}

During the "anti-spiritual pollution" movement that was launched in 1983, she, like other writers that were thought to be subversive by the state, was heavily criticized.{{cite web|date=|title=Shu Ting|url=http://www.renditions.org/renditions/authors/shuting.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020228053136/http://www.renditions.org/renditions/authors/shuting.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 28, 2002|publisher=Renditions.org|accessdate=2010-10-19}} Following this, she published two collections with poetry: Hui changge de yiweihua and Shizuniao.

• [https://books.google.com/books?id=bTkaAQAAIAAJ The mist of my heart: selected poems of Shu Ting], Translator William O'Donnell, Panda Books, 1995, {{ISBN|978-0-8351-3148-3}}
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=ucRIQwAACAAJ Book: Shu Ting: Selected Poems] (ed. by Eva Hung). Hong Kong: Renditions Paperbacks, 1994.
• [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17075505 Shu,Ting. Shuang Wei Chuan]. Shanghai: Shanghai wen yi chu ban she, 1982. Print.

Shu Ting's writing style is known to be very straightforward. Andrea Lingenfelter's describes Shu Ting in her review of Selected Poems. An Authorized Collection by Eva Hung: "her attitude [as] idealistic, patriotic, and yet apolitical. In terms of form, the poet takes few, if any, risks." Her work is also known to have somewhat of a feminine voice, characterized by a personal style. At the time it stood out because of the contrast of styles between what was being advanced by the government.

Many of her works were published during the Cultural Revolution and were scrutinized by the government, even if they did not have direct political references.{{Citation|title=37. Misty Poetry|date=2016-12-31|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/dent17008-038|work=The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature|pages=286–292|publisher=Columbia University Press|doi=10.7312/dent17008-038|isbn=978-0-231-54114-5|access-date=2021-04-27|last1=Yeh|first1=Michelle|url-access=subscription}}

• {{cite journal| url=http://www.bpj.org/PDF/V39N2.pdf#zoom=100&page=1| title=Smoking People| publisher=Beloit Poetry Journal| volume=39| number=2| date=Winter 1988–1989| url-status=dead| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101121020003/http://www.bpj.org/PDF/V39N2.pdf#zoom=100&page=1| archivedate=2010-11-21}}
• {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h2qsBYOcJfQC&dq=shu+ting&pg=PA299| chapter=Perhaps| title= A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry| editor=Czeslaw Milosz| publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt| year= 1998| isbn= 978-0-15-600574-6 }}
• {{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/redazaleachinese0000unse| url-access=registration| page=[https://archive.org/details/redazaleachinese0000unse/page/99 99]| quote=shu ting.| title=The Red azalea: Chinese poetry since the Cultural Revolution|editor1=Edward Morin |editor2=Fang Dai|translator=Edward Morin |translator2=Fang Dai |translator3=Dennis Ding| publisher=University of Hawaii Press| year= 1990| isbn= 978-0-8248-1320-8 }}
• {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ifNVS7pKjUQC&dq=shu+ting&pg=PA634| chapter=Assembly Line| title=The Giant Book of Poetry| editor=William H. Roetzheim| publisher=Level4Press Inc| year= 2006| isbn= 978-0-9768001-2-5 }}
• {{cite book |last= |url=https://archive.org/details/outofhowlingstor0000unse |title=Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry |date= |publisher=University Press of New England |year=1993 |isbn=0-8195-1210-9 |editor-last=Barnstone |editor-first=Tony |location= |page=59-65 |access-date=}}

• Misty Poets
• Bei Dao
• Duo Duo
• Fei Ye
• Gu Cheng
• Yang Lian

• [http://apostrophecast.com/authors/swierz_xu.html An Apostrophe Cast episode with translations of Shu Ting's poems] by Michael Swierz and Ying Xu.
• {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20020228053136/http://www.renditions.org/renditions/authors/shuting.html "Shu Ting", Renditions, a Chinese-English translation magazine, last accessed June 5, 2007]}}
• [http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21138 "From the Archive: Carolyn Kizer and Shu Ting"], poets.org
• [http://www.china.com.cn/chinese/RS/680084.htm] 舒婷检点自己的爱情*

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• [http://apostrophecast.com/authors/swierz_xu.html An Apostrophe Cast episode with translations of Shu Ting's poems] by Michael Swierz and Ying Xu.
• {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20020228053136/http://www.renditions.org/renditions/authors/shuting.html "Shu Ting", Renditions, a Chinese-English translation magazine, last accessed June 5, 2007]}}
• [http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21138 "From the Archive: Carolyn Kizer and Shu Ting"], poets.org
• [http://www.china.com.cn/chinese/RS/680084.htm] 舒婷检点自己的爱情

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• Kubin, Wolfgang. “Writing with Your Body: Literature as a Wound – Remarks on the Poetry of Shu Ting.” Modern Chinese Literature, vol. 4, no. 1/2, 1988, pp. 149–162. {{JSTOR|41490632}}.
• Lingenfelter, Andrea. Modern Chinese Literature, vol. 9, no. 2, 1996, pp. 395–397. {{JSTOR|41490766}}
• Yeh, Michelle. “Misty Poetry.” The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature, Columbia University Press, 2016, pp. 286–292. {{ISBN?}}
• Zhang, Yingjin. A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature. John Wiley & Sons, 2016.{{ISBN?}}

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