{"id":1636,"date":"2013-02-18T10:30:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T02:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2013-02-14T14:38:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T06:38:09","slug":"lucas-klein-on-rui-kunzes-struggle-and-symbiosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1636","title":{"rendered":"Lucas Klein on Rui Kunze’s Struggle and Symbiosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"200\"<\/a>My review <\/a>of Rui Kunze’s scholarly monograph, Struggle and Symbiosis: The Canonization of the Poet Haizi and Cultural Discourses in Contemporary China<\/em>, has been published online by Modern Chinese Literature & Culture<\/em>. Here’s how it begins:<\/p>\n

“The death of Haizi the poet will become one of the myths of our time,” eulogized Xi Chuan \u897f\u5ddd<\/span> in 1990, a year after the suicide of one of his closest friends. Four years later, however, he tried to pierce that mythology: if we continue to “frame Haizi in a sort of metaphysical halo,” he wrote, “then we can neither get a clear view of Haizi the person nor of his poetry.” Testifying to its significance in the promotion and dissemination of Haizi’s writings, the first quotation (differently translated and romanized) also appears on the back cover of Over Autumn Rooftops<\/em> (Host Publications, 2010), the collection of Haizi translations by Dan Murphy… The reconsideration, however, presents a cognizance essential for literary history and readers interested in approaching the reality, rather than mythology, of the poet. It is also the starting point for Rui Kunze’s ambitious, painstakingly researched, yet ultimately uneven study, Struggle and Symbiosis: The Canonization of the Poet Haizi and Cultural Discourses in Contemporary China<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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My review of Rui Kunze’s scholarly monograph, Struggle and Symbiosis: The Canonization of the Poet Haizi and Cultural Discourses in Contemporary China, has been published online by Modern Chinese Literature & Culture. Here’s how it begins: “The death of Haizi … 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":[233,144,946,1654],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-qo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4581,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4581","url_meta":{"origin":1636,"position":0},"title":"Shaw on Haizi","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"June 17, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\"The life and death of Chinese poetry\u2019s mystical martyr\" As part of their poetry month feature, Tristan Shaw wrote for SupChina on Haizi \u6d77\u5b50: Between 1984 and his death, Hai Zi is estimated to have written two million words worth of work, spanning lyrics, epics, and verse dramas. 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Hai Zi, who committed suicide at age 25, remains one of the most celebrated poets in China\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mychinesebooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Hai-Zi-3-266x300.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2983,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2983","url_meta":{"origin":1636,"position":3},"title":"Chinese Poetry at Epiphany","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"February 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The journal Epiphany, with Nick Admussen as poetry editor, has published a suite of contemporary Chinese pieces, including the following: Chun Sue \u6625\u6811 (translated by Martin Winter) Mu Cao \u5893\u8349 (translated by Scott E. Myers) Liu Waitong \u5ed6\u5049\u68e0 (translated by Audrey Heijins) Xiao Kaiyu\u00a0\u8096\u5f00\u611a (translated by Christopher Lupke) Haizi \u6d77\u5b50\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1469,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1469","url_meta":{"origin":1636,"position":4},"title":"Gerald Maa Translates Two Poems by Hai Zi","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"December 18, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"from Mead Magazine: Two Poems by Haizi \u6d77\u5b50 translated from Mandarin by Gerald Maa \"Your Hands\" & \"The Arles Sun\" \u00a0 North Drawing your hands The hand Picks off a glove They\u2019re just two small lamps ...","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3556,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3556","url_meta":{"origin":1636,"position":5},"title":"Chinese Poetry in the Lucien Stryk Shortlist","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"September 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) has announced the 2016 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize shortlist, including two books that are translations from the Chinese, by Hai Zi \u6d77\u5b50 and Wang Anshi \u738b\u5b89\u77f3: Ripened Wheat: Selected Poems of Hai Zi By Hai Zi Translated from the Chinese by Ye Chun\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1647,"href":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions\/1647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}