From 65438 to 0989, he interacted with major theorists and poets outside Africa, such as Yang Li and Shang, and began to create and study poetry, publishing poems, theoretical comments, essays and other works. In the early 1990s, he was known as "one of the avant-garde poets and critics in China" (Professor Zou Jianjun, a famous critic). An important avant-garde poet and theoretical critic in the 1990s. One of the earliest advocates, participants and witnesses of the avant-garde poetry movement in the 1990s played an important role in promoting it.
1989- 1994, the China Poets Association was founded, and it founded or participated in a variety of folk newspapers and periodicals that were influential in the avant-garde poetry circles in China.
199 1 year, Zhang Xiulin first proposed and advocated the method of "cultural criticism" of poetry: the restoration and crossing of freedom, and successively wrote theoretical and critical texts related to the cultural attributes of poetry, such as Pointing to Culture itself, Poetry as Culture, Cultural Premise and the Theme of Yuan Zaju Emperor, since 65438+.
From 1989 to 1999, Zhang Xiulin mainly devoted himself to the creation, theoretical research and criticism of avant-garde poetry, then stopped writing and began to engage in the creation and research in the fields of culture and philosophy in 2005.