{"id":2133,"date":"2013-08-01T09:30:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T01:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2013-07-31T10:48:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T02:48:39","slug":"a-closer-look-at-yunte-huangs-shi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2133","title":{"rendered":"A Closer Look at Yunte Huang’s SHI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gina Elia: A Closer Look at Yunte Huang’s SHI<\/a><\/h1>\n
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Huang\u2019s book of translations, SHI: A Radical Reading of Chinese Poetry<\/em>, <\/em>clearly identifies itself as, in part, a response to the Fenollosa\/Pound argument concerning Chinese poetry and its proper translation. However, the primary purpose of the work, as Huang states in his introduction, is to deal \u201cwith\u2026the often-invisible face of translation\u2026brought to the foreground of poetic texture and the traces of translation\u2019s needle work\u2026exposed to the reader\u2019s view.\u201d The translations reveal the difficulties and problematics of ripping a literary work from its cultural and linguistic context, a process that is too often smoothed over in editions that aim to hide the invisible, yet irrevocable changes committed by translation\u2019s hand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gina Elia: A Closer Look at Yunte Huang’s SHI Huang\u2019s book of translations, SHI: A Radical Reading of Chinese Poetry, clearly identifies itself as, in part, a response to the Fenollosa\/Pound argument concerning Chinese poetry and its proper translation. 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