{"id":2778,"date":"2014-09-08T09:30:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T01:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2778"},"modified":"2014-08-26T17:38:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T09:38:38","slug":"oleander-presss-selected-poems-of-xu-zhimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2778","title":{"rendered":"Oleander Press’s Selected Poems of Xu Zhimo and Denial of the Translator"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Picture\"<\/a><\/span>On their promotional webpage for the Selected Poems<\/em> <\/a>of Xu Zhimo \u5f90\u5fd7\u6469, Oleander Press cites Andrew Hamilton’s praise for the volume’s “excellent translations.”<\/p>\n

Hamilton’s praise, however, must not have registered enough with the Oleander editors, since nowhere in the book do they credit any translator, and on the copyright page the press–not the translator–asserts copyright over the translation.<\/p>\n

I’ll quote The Complete Review <\/a>on a similar case:<\/p>\n

Folks, this is not okay. This is not acceptable. This is outrageous.
\n… any publisher that is commissioning ‘work for hire’ translations, or that retains the translation copyright, is not doing right by authors, translators, readers, or the literary culture in general.
\nI remind you that PEN explicitly advises<\/a> translators: “We do not recommend accepting work-for-hire agreements”. No kidding. But translators often don’t have bargaining power; publishers with any sort of integrity shouldn’t even be suggesting it. (Alas, many, many still do — you know who you are, and shame on you.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My sources tell me that Oleander, a Cambridge UK-based press, is only publishing this book to sell as a souvenir to tourists to their city (a demographic that in recent years has trended Chinese), where Xu famously attended classes for a year. I do not see this as a sufficient excuse for refusing to credit the translator, particularly when they advertise their publication of “excellent” versions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On their promotional webpage for the Selected Poems of Xu Zhimo \u5f90\u5fd7\u6469, Oleander Press cites Andrew Hamilton’s praise for the volume’s “excellent translations.” Hamilton’s praise, however, must not have registered enough with the Oleander editors, since nowhere in the book … 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":[1452,35],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-IO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3556,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3556","url_meta":{"origin":2778,"position":0},"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":[]},{"id":4982,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4982","url_meta":{"origin":2778,"position":1},"title":"Force of Forging Words: A Translation Conversation","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"July 7, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"An online launch for Words as Grain: New and Selected Poems by Duo Duo \u591a\u591a, translated by Lucas Klein, from The Margellos World Republic of Letters by Yale University Press. 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