“Fiumi mi percorrono”: poesia cinese contemporanea e scrittura del corpo nei versi sdraiati de Le Flâneuse

is paper aims to disclose new representations of women’s bodies in contemporary Chinese poetry through the analysis of Tangping ji 躺平集 (Lying flat), a brief poetry collection published on WeChat (Weixin 微信), by the all-female poetry collective e Flâneuses (Chengshi manyouzhe 城市漫游者). To better understand the implications of a liquid, lying body, as depicted in the group’s poems, this exploration draws on Adriana Cavarero’s Inclinations: a Critique of Rectitude (first released in Italian in 2013), which proposes alternative bodily postures as new ontological frameworks. By engaging Cavarero’s theory of the inclined body, this study investigates how the lying flat body in the poems resists patriarchal, rational, and hierarchical structures traditionally associated with verticality. is work is an experimental mediation between two worlds which, despite cultural differences, seem to share the reimagining of bodily geometry as a site of resistance against the patriarchal-vertical social order. e bridge built here might also be sustained by the fact that tangping is, first of all, a social expression of dissatisfaction with the capitalistic system erected on the laws of hierarchical verticality, oriented towards individualistic social advancement, contrary to the idea of humanity as relational shared by Cavarero and e Flâneuses.