The website Shi shenghuo 诗生活 (www.poemlife.com) will close on August 12. Here’s the announcement. Shi shenghuo was founded in 2000. Through a community effort sustained for over twenty years, it has been a clearing house for Chinese poetry in the internet age and now constitutes something of an archive. Its emergence was part of the dynamic of poetry going online at the turn of the century, but its content is by no means limited to born-digital material. As is true for most archives, it can lay no claim to completeness by a long shot, and contributors differ greatly in what they have contributed and for how long, for instance in the “Poet chapters” (诗人专栏) that allow individual authors to showcase their work and its paratexts. Regardless, Shi shenghuo is a low-threshold treasure trove of source material, including the kind that is unlikely to be officially published. It will be sorely missed.
Maghiel van Crevel <m.van.crevel@hum.leidenuniv.nl>