WB Yeats was an important influence on the New Culture Movement that emerged in China after the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in 1911
“I think it’s a very good opportunity to present this exhibition to China, to let people understand how contemporary art in Ireland is now. They have more than 100 artists and no matter if you are famous or not, we will just give you 30cm by 30cm. You can only paint on that small size. It’s like an examination. That’s a good way,” he said.Chen Li, professor of Irish literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University, said that Yeats is the best-known and most widely studied Irish writer in China.
“Yeats was introduced very early on to China in the 1940s as a forerunner of the modernist poets. He influenced the first generation of Chinese poets who wrote in simplified Chinese. Before that, we followed the traditional Chinese pattern to write rhymed poems. He influenced the new generation of poets to write what we call new style poems. So he was highly influential, in a sense,” she said.
Chen, who received the Presidential Distinguished Service Award from President Higgins last December, said poems such as Down By the Sally Gardens are popular among her students. But it is When You Are Old that has reached a mass audience in China through a version sung by the musician Zhao Zhao during the 2015 Spring Festival Gala, a television show broadcast at Chinese new year that is watched by more than 900 million people.
“Beijing is the first stop on this touring exhibition and I think the city’s long history resonates with the theme of the exhibition Ancestral Houses and Meditations. I think while walking through the hutongs and Beijing parks, many of us will be struck by the ancient architecture as embodying the memory of many previous communities that lived here,” she said.
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