MY POETRY, MACAO AND THE CULTURES OF THE SEA也斯英文詩集
This article analyzes how the poetry of Leung Ping-kwan (Yesi) mobilizes Macao to reflect on the "cultures of the sea" and the Luso-Chinese cultural encounters in the Macau Peninsula and the Pearl River Delta region. Arguing that maritime experience—marked by circulation, displacement, and the trans...
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| description | This article analyzes how the poetry of Leung Ping-kwan (Yesi) mobilizes Macao to reflect on the "cultures of the sea" and the Luso-Chinese cultural encounters in the Macau Peninsula and the Pearl River Delta region. Arguing that maritime experience—marked by circulation, displacement, and the translation of sensibilities—operates as a poetic and historical matrix, the text reconstructs the way in which the author transforms urban landscapes, figures, and flavors into forms of cultural memory. The methodology is eminently interpretive and intertextual: drawing on passages and cycles mentioned by the poet himself (including the Macao series, "Macao: East and West," and poems integrated into projects such as Foodscape), the article articulates aesthetic reading and cultural reflection, highlighting strategies such as the emotional restraint characteristic of Chinese landscape poetry, descriptive imagery, and the elision of direct commentary to suggest tensions and mediations. Among the main findings, the article concludes that Macao emerges less as a fixed "theme" and more as a relational device: a place in which multiple "Easts" and "Wests" interpenetrate, producing "dong xi," that is, things and materials created by contacts, with food and the sensory archive (cuisine, streets, houses, shorelines) serving as privileged avenues for historical understanding. |
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| spelling | MY POETRY, MACAO AND THE CULTURES OF THE SEA也斯英文詩集 This article analyzes how the poetry of Leung Ping-kwan (Yesi) mobilizes Macao to reflect on the "cultures of the sea" and the Luso-Chinese cultural encounters in the Macau Peninsula and the Pearl River Delta region. Arguing that maritime experience—marked by circulation, displacement, and the translation of sensibilities—operates as a poetic and historical matrix, the text reconstructs the way in which the author transforms urban landscapes, figures, and flavors into forms of cultural memory. The methodology is eminently interpretive and intertextual: drawing on passages and cycles mentioned by the poet himself (including the Macao series, "Macao: East and West," and poems integrated into projects such as Foodscape), the article articulates aesthetic reading and cultural reflection, highlighting strategies such as the emotional restraint characteristic of Chinese landscape poetry, descriptive imagery, and the elision of direct commentary to suggest tensions and mediations. Among the main findings, the article concludes that Macao emerges less as a fixed "theme" and more as a relational device: a place in which multiple "Easts" and "Wests" interpenetrate, producing "dong xi," that is, things and materials created by contacts, with food and the sensory archive (cuisine, streets, houses, shorelines) serving as privileged avenues for historical understanding. Instituto Cultural de Macau Macau Review of Culture Articles July 2007 Leung Ping-kwan |
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