{"id":191,"date":"2011-10-29T13:58:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T05:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2011-10-30T14:52:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T06:52:38","slug":"my-life-as-a-translator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"My Life as a Translator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"eow-description\">For all of us who were unable to attend the event at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bclt.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">British Centre for Literary Translation<\/a>, here&#8217;s a video part of its proceedings. My favorite part was the description <a href=\"http:\/\/paper-republic.org\/nickyharman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicky Harman<\/a>&#8211;whose translations of poetry by <a href=\"http:\/\/paper-republic.org\/authors\/han-dong\/\" target=\"_blank\">Han Dong <\/a>\u97e9\u4e1c are forthcoming from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zephyrpress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zephyr Press <\/a>as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio?isbn=9780983297017\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Phone Call from Dalian<\/em><\/a>&#8211;gave of realizing that she never wanted to do anything but translate:<\/p>\n<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\/q3Y-9eT6Cuc?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all of us who were unable to attend the event at the British Centre for Literary Translation, here&#8217;s a video part of its proceedings. My favorite part was the description Nicky Harman&#8211;whose translations of poetry by Han Dong \u97e9\u4e1c &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=191\">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":[3,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-35","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":179,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=179","url_meta":{"origin":191,"position":0},"title":"Xi Chuan Interview part II","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"October 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Two weeks ago I linked to part one of Paul Nelson's SPLAB interview with Xi Chuan. 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