V. V. TSYBIKOVA Post-graduate student of Buryat State University Keywords: modern Chinese literature, postmodernism, poet The emergence of postmodern poetry in China dates back to the 1980s. Many works of that period reflect the processes that took place in the country related to the policy of reform and openness. Western values began to permeate the culture of the once closed China, as a result of which a powerful current was formed, hereinafter referred to as the "new generation". Poets of the "new generation", for the most part, used the laws of postmodernism in their work. Understanding this philosophical direction, they made a huge contribution to Chinese literature. Postmodernism, in turn, had certain features, one of which is "anti-heroism", "anti-worship" in the usual way1. This feature made up the content of the poetry of the "new generation". Poets said goodbye to the theme of heroism, began to speak out against instructions-sermons and painting high moral principles and virtues. The peculiarity of the literature of postmodernism lies in the simplicity of the language, in the so-called "poetry of the street", and the unusual epithets, chaotic artistic space and time, unsystematic images and expressions. In short, the Chinese literature of the 1980s experienced a "revolution", which resulted in the work of one of the brightest representatives of the "new generation", the poet Hai-tzu. Hai-tzu (real name Cha Haisheng) was born on February 19, 1964 in Huining County, Anhui Province. At the age of 4, he went to a village school, where he was the smallest in height and age, but was distinguished by intelligence and curiosity. At the age of 15, Haizi entered the Peking State University Faculty of Law. As a student, he was interested in Western philosophy, aesthetics, and epistemology. He was particularly interested in Western literature, from the works of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) to the works of the German philosopher Friedrich Herderlin (177 ... Читать далее