{"id":3051,"date":"2015-03-04T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3051"},"modified":"2015-02-04T10:52:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T02:52:18","slug":"trailer-for-poet-on-a-business-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3051","title":{"rendered":"Trailer for Poet on a Business Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/115632007\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"first\">Poet on a Business Trip \u8bd7\u4eba\u51fa\u5dee\u4e86<br \/>\nDirector: Ju Anqi \u96ce\u5b89\u5947<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"first\">Synopsis:<br \/>\nIn the dictionary definition, a business trip is when an employee is sent out to do work-related business. The main character of this film is the poet Shu, who lives in Beijing and has never been on a business trip. Twelve years ago, in the fall of 2002, he decided to send himself on a business trip to the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region 4000 kilometers away. In this desolate westernmost region of China, he traveled alone by way of all sorts of vehicles, passing through mountain ranges, forests, lake regions, the desert, and national borders. Staying in the cheapest motels and hostels, he sought out prostitute after prostitute. Somewhere in the midst of the physical environment and his physical body, the poet on a business trip wrote sixteen poems, and this film begins with the first one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"first\">For more, click <a href=\"http:\/\/poetonabusinesstrip.com\/Feed\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet on a Business Trip \u8bd7\u4eba\u51fa\u5dee\u4e86 Director: Ju Anqi \u96ce\u5b89\u5947 Synopsis: In the dictionary definition, a business trip is when an employee is sent out to do work-related business. The main character of this film is the poet Shu, who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3051\">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":[3,11],"tags":[1559],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-Nd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4483,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4483","url_meta":{"origin":3051,"position":0},"title":"Clifton on China in The Irish Times","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"March 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Harry Clifton and Bao Huiyi Here's a let-down of a travelogue: Irish poet Harry Clifton went to China and wrote about it for The Irish Times. 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