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This article analyses a part of a new phenomenon occurring in Chinese poetry of the 1980s — after decades of denying the domestic tradition, some of the so-called Third generation poets started to find their way back to it. Unlike the more popular “searching for the roots” movement authors, however, poets like Shi Guanghua, Song Qu and Song Wei, Cheqianzi, and Daxian, whose poems are the subject of...