{"id":2880,"date":"2014-11-18T09:30:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T01:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2014-11-17T10:25:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T02:25:20","slug":"chavess-wang-hongdu-wins-stryk-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2880","title":{"rendered":"Chaves’s Wang Hongdu wins Stryk Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"every-rock<\/a>At last week’s ALTA conference, Jonathan Chaves was announced <\/a>as the winner of this year’s Lucien Stryk Prize for his translation of Wang Hongdu \u6c6a\u6d2a\u5ea6, Every Rock a Universe\u2014The Yellow Mountains and Chinese Travel Writing <\/em><\/a>(Floating World Editions, 2013). The judges were Jonathan Stalling, Janet Kim Ha, and Rainer Schulte.<\/p>\n

Here’s a description of the work:<\/p>\n

The Yellow Mountains (Huangshan) of China\u2019s Anhui Province have been famous for centuries as a place of scenic beauty and inspiration, and remain a hugely popular tourist destination today. A \u201cgolden age\u201d of Yellow Mountains travel came in the seventeenth century, when they became a refuge for loyalists protesting the new Qing Dynasty, among them poet and artist Wang Hongdu (1646\u20131721\/1722), who dedicated himself to traveling to each and every peak and site and recording his impressions. Unfortunately, his resulting masterpiece of Chinese travel writing was not printed until 1775 and has since remained obscure and available only in\u00a0Chinese.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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At last week’s ALTA conference, Jonathan Chaves was announced as the winner of this year’s Lucien Stryk Prize for his translation of Wang Hongdu \u6c6a\u6d2a\u5ea6, Every Rock a Universe\u2014The Yellow Mountains and Chinese Travel Writing (Floating World Editions, 2013). 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