{"id":1926,"date":"2013-05-17T09:30:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T01:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2013-05-16T10:07:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T02:07:58","slug":"admussen-on-biens-baudelaire-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1926","title":{"rendered":"Admussen on Bien’s Baudelaire in China"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"200\"<\/a>MCLC has posted Nick Admussen’s review of Gloria Bien’s Baudelaire in China: A Study in Literary Reception<\/em><\/a>. Here’s how it begins:<\/p>\n

As Chinese intellectuals of the May Fourth era were making a concerted effort to learn foreign languages and engage with foreign literature, the work of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was also beginning to garner belated acclaim in and out of France. A poet, essayist, and translator best known for his collections Les Fleurs du mal<\/em> and Petits Po\u00e8mes en prose<\/em>, Baudelaire was an aesthetic, formal, and conceptual innovator, and poets and critics of many nations still work to understand and react to his legacy. In China, the broad and sustained circulation of Baudelaire\u2019s poetry is visible in the many versions of his Chinese name: in her Appendix I, Gloria Bien lists forty variants spanning almost a century, from the first translators of Baudelaire\u2019s poetry into Chinese (including Zhou Zuoren \u5468\u4f5c\u4eba<\/span>) to those found in Zhang Daming\u2019s (\u5f20\u5927\u660e<\/span>) 2007 work A Hundred Years of Chinese Symbolism<\/em> (\u4e2d\u56fd\u8c61\u5f81\u4e3b\u4e49\u767e\u5e74\u53f2<\/span>). Baudelaire\u2019s work has passed through the hands of China\u2019s greatest writers and thinkers and makes up a persistently relevant part of the tradition of modern Chinese poetry. The works and authors that intersect with Baudelaire\u2019s poetry, moreover, are particularly diverse, and the impact of Baudelaire\u2019s work on Chinese writing is fundamentally multivalent. For nearly a hundred years, writers of conflicting ideologies, competing schools, and disparate methods have transformed and been transformed by Baudelaire\u2019s work with a complexity that makes the accumulation and categorization of data\u2014to say nothing of interpretation\u2014a substantial task.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MCLC has posted Nick Admussen’s review of Gloria Bien’s Baudelaire in China: A Study in Literary Reception. Here’s how it begins: As Chinese intellectuals of the May Fourth era were making a concerted effort to learn foreign languages and engage … 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":[317,1116,664,1117,1118],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-v4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4693,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4693","url_meta":{"origin":1926,"position":0},"title":"Announcing publication of Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 29, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs We are pleased to announce publication of\u00a0Chinese Poetry\u00a0and Translation: Rights and Wrongs\u00a0(Amsterdam University\u00a0Press, 2019). 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