Character, New, Chinese is a bilingual poetry collection that pushes Chinese to its structural and aesthetic limits. Extending the tradition of experimental poetry into a new century, the book presents an ambitious, globally oriented re-imagination of what Chinese writing can be. It is the second published poetry collection by Ni Jing, an Asian multidisciplinary artist.
In these pages, Chinese is not merely written-it is redesigned. Language becomes a canvas of shifting forms and disrupted rhythms, where meanings fracture and rebuild themselves. Classical Chinese poetics, postmodern theory, and the textures of new-media language converge to create a hybrid, cross-cultural, and groundbreaking mode of expression. This collection embodies a question that belongs to the future of literature: "What can Chinese become?"