{"id":2263,"date":"2013-11-04T09:30:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T01:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2013-10-25T10:49:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T02:49:15","slug":"wlt-review-of-han-dong-ouyang-jianghe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2263","title":{"rendered":"WLT Review of Han Dong &#038; Ouyang Jianghe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldliteraturetoday.org\/2013\/september\/phone-call-dalian-han-dong-and-doubled-shadows-ouyang-jianghe#.UmnLNhDpzCv\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"A Phone Call from Dalian\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.worldliteraturetoday.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2013\/September\/dong_aphonecallfromdalian.jpg?resize=240%2C320\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a> <em>World Literature Today<\/em> has published Josh Stenberg&#8217;s review of Zephyr books <em>A Phone Call from Dalian<\/em> by Han Dong\u00a0\u97e9\u4e1c, translated by Nicky Harman, and <em>Doubled Shadows by<\/em> Ouyang Jianghe \u6b27\u9633\u6c5f\u6cb3, translated by Austin Woerner:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ouyang Jianghe and Han Dong &#8230; both occupy established places in what, for over thirty years, has been known as avant-garde Chinese literature. In poetic approach, they represent divergent tendencies\u2014Ouyang cosmopolitan, clean, and heavily referential; Han craftily offhand, personal, confidently bizarre, not tetchy about grime <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldliteraturetoday.org\/2013\/september\/phone-call-dalian-han-dong-and-doubled-shadows-ouyang-jianghe#.UmnLNhDpzCv\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Doubled Shadows\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.worldliteraturetoday.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2013\/September\/jianghe_doubledshadows.jpg?resize=240%2C320\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>or sex. Where Ouyang often seems to offer an argument about the cultural currents and skirmishes of today\u2019s China, Han\u2019s work most often reads as a lament for the failure of attempts to bridge the spaces between people<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Literature Today has published Josh Stenberg&#8217;s review of Zephyr books A Phone Call from Dalian by Han Dong\u00a0\u97e9\u4e1c, translated by Nicky Harman, and Doubled Shadows by Ouyang Jianghe \u6b27\u9633\u6c5f\u6cb3, translated by Austin Woerner: Ouyang Jianghe and Han Dong &#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2263\">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":[3,16],"tags":[39,135,1239,399,236],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-Av","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3460,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3460","url_meta":{"origin":2263,"position":0},"title":"Lantz on Phoenix","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"March 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Tim Lantz at the LA Review reviews Phoenix \u51e4\u51f0, by Ouyang Jianghe \u6b27\u9633\u6c5f\u6cb3 as translated by Austin Woerner: It\u2019s not hard to see why Ouyang Jianghe considers Phoenix his magnum opus. 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