{"id":1052,"date":"2012-07-24T11:58:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T03:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2012-07-24T11:58:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T03:58:39","slug":"asymptote-july-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1052","title":{"rendered":"Asymptote July 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>The new issue of Asymptote <\/a>is out, featuring work by Rosmarie Waldrop<\/a>, plus A Sinophone “20 under 40,”<\/a> as well as:<\/p>\n

“The Pocketwatch<\/a>,” a new translation of a Huang Chunming story (by Howard Goldblatt)<\/p>\n

Translations of Yang Mu’s poetry<\/a> (by Arthur Sze and Michelle Yeh)<\/p>\n

Translations of Ye Mimi’s poetry<\/a> (by Steve Bradbury)<\/p>\n

Dylan Suher essay on Qian Zhongshu<\/a>, that also serves as a review of Humans, Beasts and Ghosts: The Collected Short Stories of Qian Zhongshu<\/em> (translated by Christopher G. Rea)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also see the January 2012 issue for my translations of Xi Chuan\u2018s \u201cBeast\u201d \u5de8\u517d, \u201cThe Distance\u201d \u8fdc\u65b9, and \u201cPoison\u201d \u6bd2\u836f<\/a>,\u00a0 and hear a recording of \u201cThe Distance\u201d read in Chinese by Huang Yin-Nan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new issue of Asymptote is out, featuring work by Rosmarie Waldrop, plus A Sinophone “20 under 40,” as well as: “The Pocketwatch,” a new translation of a Huang Chunming story (by Howard Goldblatt) Translations of Yang Mu’s poetry (by … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[227,655,656,19,638,654,538,657,270,116,1654,659,658],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-gY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5131,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=5131","url_meta":{"origin":1052,"position":0},"title":"Bloom & Other Poems, by Xi Chuan","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"April 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Bloom & and Other Poems, by Xi Chuan, translated by Lucas Klein A rhapsodic meditation on the dreams and defeats, disparities and excesses, mythologies and absurdities of contemporary life Available now","rel":"","context":"In "Xi Chuan"","block_context":{"text":"Xi Chuan","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bloom-cover-front-scaled.jpg?fit=801%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bloom-cover-front-scaled.jpg?fit=801%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bloom-cover-front-scaled.jpg?fit=801%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Bloom-cover-front-scaled.jpg?fit=801%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2407,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2407","url_meta":{"origin":1052,"position":1},"title":"Translators of the World, Unite! 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