Snail Uprising

"Snail Uprising" compiles poems meticulously crafted over the past decade at a snail's pace and published in newspapers and magazines in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, and mainland China. It also includes poems that have won the Huazong Literary Award and were shortlisted for the New Poetry category of the Times Literary Award. Highly recommended by renowned poet Tang Juan (Liu Zhengzhong, Professor and Head of the Department of Chinese Literature at National Taiwan University) and renowned scholar Professor Lin Jianguo (Associate Professor of Foreign Languages ​​and Literature at National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University), the book has been critically reviewed and written in its preface.

Many of the poems in this collection are warm and approachable, with diverse writing styles and a unique sense of design. The first volume of the collection focuses on love poems, but also contains intellectual elements, many of which deal with love and friendship, and how love is digitized and spatialized in the internet age. The second volume of the collection surveys global dynamics, offering sharp observations and reflections on issues such as imperial landscapes, terrorist politics, climate justice, the COVID-19 pandemic, patriotism, Chinese identity, and racial discrimination. Many of the poems in this collection reveal the author's vibrant and bright poetic spirit. This publication marks the conclusion of the poet's poetic career during the prime of his life.

Weng Xianwei

Xu Weixian, whose real name is Xu Weixian, teaches at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is the author of the poetry collection "Unidentified Creatures," the essay collection "The Second Face," and the novel collection "Wandering and Addiction." His works have won dozens of literary awards both domestically and internationally, and have been included in literary anthologies from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and Singapore and Malaysia. His works have also been translated into Japanese and Korean. He is also the author of the academic books "From Erotic History to Sexual History: Gay Writing and the Construction of Masculinity in Modern China" (National Central University Press), "Chinese-Language Film in Post-Malaysia: Dialect Style, Huayi Style, and Authorship Theory" (Linking Publishing House), and "Redrawing the Map of the Chinese Language: The Cultural Production of Chinese-Language Film in Singapore and Malaysia Before and After the Cold War" (Chinese and English editions) (Hong Kong University Press). He also co-edited the Chinese and English editions of "Memorandum: A Reader of Singaporean Chinese Fiction" with Koh Si-jen, and the English edition of "Transnational Chinese-Language Film: Body, Desire, and Ethical Frustration" with Brian Bergen-Aurand and Mary Mazzilli.

Preface 1: Uprising in a Secret Room ◎ Liu Zhengzhong (Tang Juan) 006
Chapter 2: The Tremor of Unknown Tentacles ◎ Lin Jianguo 016
Bazhi Snail 026

Part 1: In the Secret Chamber

If I could leave you like leaving a hotel,
In the Chamber of Secrets 034
Snail Uprising 038
Love Poems Written in the Sky 040
The Speed ​​of Love (Three Poems) 044
My hand that touched your Tinder 048
Watching the BL Thai drama Occasionally 050
My feet passing through the Blue City 052
Joke 054
Spa 058
Qingshui Cliff 060
QQ 062
Boring Ambush (Two Poems) 064
Niu066
Punctuation of the Scenery 070
Second Life 072

Next: Seeing

If Marx Arrived in China
See 080
Triangle 084
Exodus, 2000 088
Fengyanli: Building 1, Room 202, Room 094
Sandstorm 098
Birthday (two poems) 100
These organs are already on the shelf (two poems) 104
New Normal 108
Queen's departure pier 112
Riding an elevator together and falling 116 meters
Show 120
New Scenery of Yunnan Garden (Three Poems) 124
Door of Happiness 130
Isolation (Five Poems) 134
Guinness World Records: 2020, Page 144