Arts | Exhibition of Hua-Lin’s collection opens tomorrow

The exhibition “The Trumpet of the Times: Poet F. Hua-Lin”, organized by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), will be inaugurated tomorrow at Jao Tsung-I Academy at 6.30 p.m.
The exhibition features manuscripts, poems, photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, music scores, song lists and other related items pertaining to the local poet Hua-Lin, who was famed in the Chinese literary circles during the 1930s and 1940s.
According to the IC’s statements, all items that will be featured in the exhibition were donated by relatives of the poet.
Hua-Lin (1915-1992), earned the title “the trumpet of the times” during the “isolated-island period” in Shanghai.
The poet graduated from the Foreign Language Department of Jinan National University in Shanghai and settled down in the region where he worked and polished his writings in the early 1950s.
In the late 1960s, he began his studies in classical Chinese poetry and couplet writing. His published works include “Mei Gui” (Rose), “Xiang Ri Kui” (Sunflower), “Man Tian Xing” (Starry Sky), and “Qian Niu Hua ”(Morning Glory), in addition to several unpublished translations, poems, couplets and monographs.
To complement the exhibition the bureau will also launch the collection “The Trumpet of the Times: Poet F. Hua-Li” and “Selected Poems and Essays by F. Hua-Lin.”
According to the IC, these publications feature works that have never been published alongside relatively unknown  poems that were published in a variety of newspapers.
The exhibition will run until November 13 at the Academy daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.