• thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    modernist poetry during the Tang Dynasty

    Super irrelevant nitpick but how the fuck is poetry written during the Tang Dynasty (which ended in around 900) "modernist"?!

      • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah but modernism is a very specific movement from the 19th century. Fair point though, and the Tang dynasty is when the modern idea of "Chinese-ness" in terms of cultural forms like poetry gets codified, so I get it.