Translation of Charles Baudelaire in China from 1949 to 1976

Following the drastic changes in Chinese society and its ideology in 1949, modernist literature became taboo. But the translation, reading, and reception of Charles Baudelaire and his Flowers of Evil in China continued. By synthesizing the process of translating Baudelaire in China from 1949 to 1976, we can see the overt translation and rewrite of Baudelaire by Chen Jingrong and the Journal of Translation, the secret translation pioneered by Shi Zhecun and Qian Chunqi, and the popular underground reading activities. These concurrent efforts promoted the dissemination of Baudelaire and his Flowers of Evil, together with other modern poetry, among the Chinese potential poets, unexpectedly gave birth to the rise of new poetry schools represented by the Misty Poetry in the new era.