{"id":2937,"date":"2015-01-09T09:30:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T01:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2937"},"modified":"2014-12-29T17:53:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T09:53:12","slug":"du-fu-in-kuizhou-on-asymptote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2937","title":{"rendered":"Du Fu in Kuizhou on Asymptote"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Asymptote<\/em> <\/a>has published Boey Kim Cheng’s re-imagination of the time Du Fu \u675c\u752b spent in Kuizhou. Here’s how it begins:<\/p>\n

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In the summer of 765, after years of wandering following the onset of the An Lu Shan Rebellion in 755 and the tumultuous years that followed, Du Fu and his family arrived in Kuizhou (present-day Baidicheng, which is 8km downstream from Fengjie County on the Yangtze). Here Du Fu experienced perhaps the most peaceful and prolific years of his life. With the help of the governor, who gave him an easy official appointment, Du Fu came to own two properties: a house in Nang-west with a garden and a large orchard, and another house in East Village with a rice farm attached.\u00a0 He also spent time in the official quarters further west, called West Pavilion in the poems.<\/em><\/p>\n

The heat is something he can’t get used to. It sits heavy on the village, the hills and the river, the inert air dense with moisture that could not be wrung out. His clothes are soaked just from walking a few\u00a0lis<\/em>\u00a0to the house in East Village. To make the Yangtze summer more unbearable, the mosquitoes are savage and the flies indefatigable. At night the family lies awake, straw-fan in hand, tossing and groaning, wishing they were back north in\u00a0Changan\u00a0or Luoyang. Even the snow and cold are better than this heat that holds them captive.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Asymptote has published Boey Kim Cheng’s re-imagination of the time Du Fu \u675c\u752b spent in Kuizhou. Here’s how it begins: In the summer of 765, after years of wandering following the onset of the An Lu Shan Rebellion in 755 … 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],"tags":[1507,1506,180],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-Ln","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3472,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3472","url_meta":{"origin":2937,"position":0},"title":"Owen’s Du Fu in the Harvard Gazette","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"April 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The Harvard Gazette has run a write-up promoting Stephen Owen's complete Poetry of Du Fu: \"A monumental undertaking\u00a0(the prolific\u00a0Du Fu\u00a0left 1,400\u00a0extant poems), Owen spent nearly a decade working on the translation, which resulted in a 3,000-page,\u00a0six-volume book that weighs in at nine pounds.\" Along with recordings of Owen reading some\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"Stephen Owen translates the poetry of Du Fu","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/040516_Owen_Stephen_093_605.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3390,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3390","url_meta":{"origin":2937,"position":1},"title":"Owen’s Complete Poetry of Du Fu","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"January 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The Poetry of Du Fu \u675c\u752b, edited and translated by Stephen Owen, is now available from the Library of Chinese Humanities (a new venture started by Owen and Paul Kroll and edited by them and Sarah Allen, Christopher Nugent, Anna Shields, Xiaofei Tian, and Ding Xiang Warner). 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