Shen Haobo

Shen Haobo
Born	1976 Taixing, China
Occupation	Poet, Publisher
Education	BA
Alma mater	Beijing Normal University
Period	1996–present
Genre	poem

Shen Haobo (Chinese: 沈浩波は; pinyin: Shěn Hàobō) is a Chinese poet and publisher, born in 1976 in Taixing, Jiangsu province. He graduated from the Chinese department of Beijing Normal University in 1999.

Shen Haobo began publishing and writing poetry in 1996 and had his first official publication in 1998 with "Who was joking on 1990s"(谁在拿90年代ねんだい开涮) He is identified with the Lower Body Poets and the Post 70s Generation.

Shen Haobo founded publishing company Xiron in 2001, which became one of the largest private-owned publishing companies in China. It buys the rights to books from established publishing houses and republishes for a discounted price in great quantities. Xiron published Chun Sue's "Beijing Doll".

Debate on modern poems

While the iconic figures of 'Post 80s Generation' are 'Guo Jingming' and 'Han Han', both are commercial popular writers and both became Forbes multi-millionaires and have millions of fans in Chinese youth, in 2006, there was a famous debate between the 'Post 70s Generation' iconic figure, the minor group 'Lower Body' poet Shen Haobo and Han Han, the latter who claimed that 'both modern poets and poems are no longer in need of existence, and the genre of modern poetry is meaningless'(现代诗歌和わ诗人都と没ぼつ有ゆう存在そんざい的てき必要ひつよう，现代诗这种体裁ていさい也是没ぼつ有意ゆうい义的). This raised anger from Lower body poets. Shen Haobo wrote in his blog: 'The genuine novelists can never sell more than Han Han's rubbish work. This is the best writers and poets' own choice, and nothing to complain. However, Han Hans would still hate these all.' (真正しんせい的てき小しょう说家们永远卖不ふ过韩寒かん的てき文字もじ垃圾。这是优秀的てき作家さっか和わ诗人的てき自我じが选择，没ぼつ什么可か抱だき怨的。但ただし是ぜ，韩寒们仍然しか会かい仇かたき视这一切いっさい）Shen haobo said he wouldn't talk about human's sense to a donkey(对一头驴就不用讲人的道理) so there is nothing to talk about. Then he fought back with an impromptu writing poem: 'A Donkey/ is a donkey/ is very donkey donkey/ and if you ask/ why he is so donkey/ it's because/ he is a/ donkey for show/...and it's because/ he is a/ donkey with fans.' (驴/很驴/非常ひじょう驴.../你问他た/为什么这么驴/那な是ぜ因いん为/他た是ぜ一いち头/有ゆう粉こな丝的驴)

This story may tell the difference between those two generations.

External links

• Internet Literature: Shen Haobo
• Maghiel van Crevel. An overview of the Lower Body poets