MACAO THROUGH THE “NEW POETRY” OF LEUNG PING-KWAN梁秉鈞筆下有關澳門的新詩和著作
The article analyzes how Leung Ping-kwan (也斯), one of Hong Kong’s leading poets and cultural critics, constructs an image of Macao through his “new poetry” (xinshi 新詩). It is argued that the author’s poetic writing transforms the observation of landscapes, ruins, and everyday practices into cultural...
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
July 2007
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| description | The article analyzes how Leung Ping-kwan (也斯), one of Hong Kong’s leading poets and cultural critics, constructs an image of Macao through his “new poetry” (xinshi 新詩). It is argued that the author’s poetic writing transforms the observation of landscapes, ruins, and everyday practices into cultural reading: the city emerges simultaneously as a historical-Portuguese space and as a setting for Luso-Oriental encounters, traversed by nostalgia, ambivalence, and stereotyped perceptions. Methodologically, the author undertakes a thematic and chronological reading of the poetic corpus associated with Macao, articulating textual images with concrete historical contexts—namely, the infrastructural modernization linked to the bridges (Macao–Taipa) and the persistence of religious and material memories (such as inscriptions, temples, and ruins). The main conclusions emphasize that Leung’s poems mobilize topographies (cobblestone streets, shadowy houses, provisional supports, murky sea) to dramatize decay and uncertainty in the face of the future; at the same time, the juxtaposition of Western monuments and Chinese devotional spaces reveals a cultural “ecology” of coexistence, but also signs of dissonance and erosion. Thus, Leung’s “Macao” offers a critical window onto transformations and the ways in which the city is imagined, remembered, and reinterpreted. |
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| spelling | MACAO THROUGH THE “NEW POETRY” OF LEUNG PING-KWAN梁秉鈞筆下有關澳門的新詩和著作 The article analyzes how Leung Ping-kwan (也斯), one of Hong Kong’s leading poets and cultural critics, constructs an image of Macao through his “new poetry” (xinshi 新詩). It is argued that the author’s poetic writing transforms the observation of landscapes, ruins, and everyday practices into cultural reading: the city emerges simultaneously as a historical-Portuguese space and as a setting for Luso-Oriental encounters, traversed by nostalgia, ambivalence, and stereotyped perceptions. Methodologically, the author undertakes a thematic and chronological reading of the poetic corpus associated with Macao, articulating textual images with concrete historical contexts—namely, the infrastructural modernization linked to the bridges (Macao–Taipa) and the persistence of religious and material memories (such as inscriptions, temples, and ruins). The main conclusions emphasize that Leung’s poems mobilize topographies (cobblestone streets, shadowy houses, provisional supports, murky sea) to dramatize decay and uncertainty in the face of the future; at the same time, the juxtaposition of Western monuments and Chinese devotional spaces reveals a cultural “ecology” of coexistence, but also signs of dissonance and erosion. Thus, Leung’s “Macao” offers a critical window onto transformations and the ways in which the city is imagined, remembered, and reinterpreted. Instituto Cultural de Macau Macau Review of Culture Articles July 2007 Christina Miu Bing Cheng |
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