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In the wilderness without gods, write poems that cover the heavens and earth: a review of Hua Qing’s the garden of symbolism

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This article starts from Hua Qing’s writing and criticism practice. It reviews the connection of Hua Qing’s “Ascending Poetry” and “Returning Home Poetry” with Chinese traditional classic poetry and German existentialism, thus showing a process of and intention for ontological life poetics through mutual authentication between poetry and criticism.

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  1. Holderlin, Friedrich, Bread and Wine. [EB/OL] http://www.dedecn.com/inhalte/deutsch/literatur/2012/0112862.htm,2018/7/25.

  2. Heidegger (1991a).

  3. Heidegger (1991b).

  4. Zhang and Cai (2016a).

  5. Heidegger (1991c).

  6. Hua (2018a).

  7. Zhang and Cai (2016b).

  8. Sun and Lin (2008).

  9. Cited in Jing Wendong. Gantan Shixue (Sighing Poetics), Unpublished.

  10. Zhang and Cai (2016c).

  11. Zhang and Cai (2016d).

  12. Hua (2018b).

  13. Hua (2018c).

  14. Hua (2018d).

  15. Heidegger and Sun (2000a).

  16. Zhang and Cai (2016e).

  17. Zhang and Cai (2016f).

  18. Hua (2018e).

  19. Hua (2018f).

  20. Heidegger and Sun (2000b).

  21. Heidegger and Sun (2000c).

  22. Hua (2018g).

  23. Hua (2018h).

  24. Heidegger and Sun (2000d).

  25. Zhang and Cai (2016g).

  26. Zhang (2010a).

  27. Heidegger (1991d).

  28. Zhang (2010b).

  29. Hua (2018i).

  30. Hua (2018j).

  31. Hua (2018k).

  32. Hua (2018l).

  33. Hua (2018m).

  34. Hua (2018n).

  35. Heidegger and Sun (2004).

  36. Zhang (2010c).

  37. Feng Qiang has written extensively on this point. Feng (2013).

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Zhang, H. In the wilderness without gods, write poems that cover the heavens and earth: a review of Hua Qing’s the garden of symbolism. Int. Commun. Chin. Cult 6, 85–92 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40636-019-00142-4

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