Tuesday, 3/12, 4:30 PM:

Translating Poetry: A roundtable discussion with Chinese poet Xi Chuan, Central Academy for Fine Arts (Beijing), and his translator, Assistant Professor Lucas Klein of City University of Hong Kong, and Middlebury College faculty. Xi Chuan is one of the most well-known contemporary poets writing in the Chinese language, and is the author most recently of Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems (New Directions, 2012), a bilingual edition with English translation by Lucas Klein, a 2000 graduate of Middlebury College (Chinese and LITS) and now in the department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong. (Middlebury College Robert A. Jones ’59 House conference room)

Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Department of Chinese, John D. Berninghausen Professorship, East Asian Studies Program.