Lower Body Poets

The Lower Body Poets ("lower body:" Chinese 下半身, pinyin: xiaban shen or xià bàn shēn) are a movement of poets in China in the early 21st century. Among them are Yin Lichuan (尹丽川) and Shen Haobo (沈浩波). Maghiel van Crevel describes their work as "sit[ting] at the earthy end of the spectrum" of post Mao poetry in China, but strongly connected to older Chinese poetry and as "hip and disaffected" but still expressing "social concern".^[1][2]

Other Lower Body Poets are Li Hongqi (李红旗), Li Shijiang (李师江), Xuanyuanshike (轩辕轼轲), Wu Ang (巫昂), Duo Yu (朵渔), Ma Fei (马非), and Zhu Jian (朱剑).^[2]