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Poetry Critic Chen Chao 陈超, 1958-2014
On 31 October, poetry critic and scholar Chen Chao 陈超 took his own life. His death has been widely reported online: e.g.
http://book.sina.com.cn/news/c/2014-11-02/0711687902.shtml and http://culture.people.com.cn/n/2014/1102/c22219-25954006.html.
More extensive and specialist obituaries will doubtless follow, if they haven’t already. Poemlife 诗生活 has a beautiful picture of Chen Chao: http://www.poemlife.com/newshow-8861.htm.
Chen Chao made important contributions to scholarship and criticism. Starting from the early 1980s, he wrote numerous essays on individual oeuvres, themes, and texts, and on overarching trends in poetry and criticism.
Among many other publications, Chen served as editor of the 1993 anthology《以梦为马：新生代卷》[With a Dream for a Horse: Newborn Generation Volume], part of the six-volume《当代诗歌潮流回顾》[A Look Back at Trends in Contemporary Poetry] edited by Xie Mian谢冕 and Tang Xiaodu 唐晓渡; and as editor-cum-author of《20世纪中国探索诗鉴赏辞典》[A Critical Anthology of 20t-Century Chinese Explorative Poetry], an ambitious book in the genre in which each poem is accompanied by an individual commentary, first published in 1989 and substantially revised and expanded in 1999.
Both in his case studies and when he entered the fray of the polemics that have punctuated poetry discourse in the People’s Republic since the Cultural Revolution, Chen Chao’s was a lucid and engaging voice.
Maghiel van Crevel, Leiden University 
by denton.2 at osu.edu on November 3, 2014
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