{"id":1592,"date":"2013-01-24T10:30:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T02:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2016-01-09T00:51:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T16:51:06","slug":"lucas-klein-on-dung-kai-cheungs-atlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1592","title":{"rendered":"Lucas Klein on Dung Kai-cheung’s Atlas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My review of Atlas<\/a>: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City<\/em>, by Dung Kai-cheung \u8463\u555f\u7ae0 and translated by the author with Anders Hansson and Bonnie S. McDougall, has been posted at Rain Taxi<\/em>. Here’s how it begins:<\/p>\n

“No one, wise Kublai,\u201d says Marco Polo in Italo Calvino\u2019s Invisible Cities<\/em>, \u201cknows better than you that the city must never be confused with the words that describe it.\u201d In Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City<\/em>, Hong Kong\u2019s Dung Kai-cheung writes, \u201cAll places are misplaces, and all misplaces are misreadings,\u201d and \u201cThe prerequisite for the setting of boundaries on maps is possession of the power to create fiction.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My review of Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City, by Dung Kai-cheung \u8463\u555f\u7ae0 and translated by the author with Anders Hansson and Bonnie S. McDougall, has been posted at Rain Taxi. Here’s how it begins: “No one, wise Kublai,\u201d … 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":[3,16],"tags":[430,429,428],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-pG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":793,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=793","url_meta":{"origin":1592,"position":0},"title":"Interview with Dung Kai-cheung","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"March 13, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The Hong Kong Advanced Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Studies has just posted Cris Mattison's interview with Hong Kong writer Dung Kai-cheung \u8463\u555f\u7ae0, one of the SAR's most inventive authors. 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