{"id":1128,"date":"2012-08-30T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2012-08-30T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T02:00:08","slug":"contemporary-poetry-from-china-a-reading-and-discussion-with-xi-chuan-and-zhou-zan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1128","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Poetry from China: A Reading and Discussion with Xi Chuan and Zhou Zan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l4PhZxQTD_E?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Poetry reading and discussion with Xi Chuan and Zhou Zan\u00a0\u5468\u74d2 at the Library of Congress last October in promotion of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coppercanyonpress.org\/pages\/browse\/book.asp?bg=%7B2855B44E-88A9-48F1-AAB9-FA2388DCDAC1%7D\" target=\"_blank\">Push Open the Window<\/a><\/em>. Xi Chuan read his poems in Chinese and English in my translation; Zhou Zan read her poems in Chinese, with English translations read by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carolyn_Forch%C3%A9\" target=\"_blank\">Carolyn Forch\u00e9<\/a>. A discussion follows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry reading and discussion with Xi Chuan and Zhou Zan\u00a0\u5468\u74d2 at the Library of Congress last October in promotion of Push Open the Window. Xi Chuan read his poems in Chinese and English in my translation; Zhou Zan read her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1128\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[13,3,9,11,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-ic","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=28","url_meta":{"origin":1128,"position":0},"title":"Write-up of Xi Chuan &#038; Zhou Zan&#8217;s Port Townsend Reading","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"October 3, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Italian translator Matt Rowe attended the recent Xi Chuan \/ Zhou Zan reading, and offered the following write-up: Xi Chuan and Zhou Zan read on Saturday 1 October in Port Townsend, the second stop on their U.S. tour for the new anthology Push Open The Window. 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