{"id":3087,"date":"2015-03-20T09:30:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T01:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2015-02-17T10:32:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T02:32:47","slug":"open-letters-monthly-reviews-calligrams-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3087","title":{"rendered":"Open Letters Monthly Reviews Calligrams Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openlettersmonthly.com\/these-pictures-are-themselves-little-souls\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-32887 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.openlettersmonthly.com\/issue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/literarymindandthecarvingofdragons-195x300.jpeg?resize=195%2C300\" alt=\"literarymindandthecarvingofdragons\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Steve Donoghue at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openlettersmonthly.com\/these-pictures-are-themselves-little-souls\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Letters Monthly <\/a>reviews three books from the &#8220;deservedly popular&#8221; Calligrams reprint series from <em>New York Review of Books<\/em> and Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, devoted to \u201cwritings from and on Ch<span style=\"color: #000000;\">ina\u201d: <em>Chinese Rhyme-Prose<\/em>, translated by Burton Watson with a preface by Lucas Klein; <em>The Literary Mind &amp; The Carving of Dragons<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, by Liu Hsieh t<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ranslated by Vincent Yu-Chung Shih; and <em>The Three Leaps of Wang Lun<\/em><\/span>, b<span style=\"color: #000000;\">y Alfred D<\/span>\u00f6blin translated by C. D. Godwin. Here&#8217;s a passage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chinese literature has one of the longest histories in the world; Chinese writers and poets and scholars were parsing fine points of rhetoric and prosody long before the Greeks had ever heard the song of Troy, and they were hotly debating critical fine points a millennium before the monks of Ireland wrote their first playful erotica with ice-cold fingers. The outflow has continued almost unabated for three thousand years, with major works spawning minor works and minor works spawning commentaries and the major commentaries spawning commentaries of their own. It\u2019s an immense and frighteningly tangled bookish heritage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the full review, click on the image above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Donoghue at Open Letters Monthly reviews three books from the &#8220;deservedly popular&#8221; Calligrams reprint series from New York Review of Books and Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, devoted to \u201cwritings from and on China\u201d: Chinese Rhyme-Prose, translated by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3087\">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],"tags":[1573,436,1574,1570,1571,462,1569,1572],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-NN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2616,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2616","url_meta":{"origin":3087,"position":0},"title":"Not Altogether an Illusion: Lucas Klein on Burton Watson","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"May 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"As part of a Translation & World Literature feature, World Literature Today has published my short article \"Not Altogether an Illusion: Translation and Translucence in the Work of Burton Watson.\" Here's an excerpt: Since Chinese poetry started being translated into English, poets and sinologists have presented poetry and sinology as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Links&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.worldliteraturetoday.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2014\/May\/klein_watson_illustration.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3359,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3359","url_meta":{"origin":3087,"position":1},"title":"Chinese Poetry in End-of-Year Lists","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"January 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"If the end of the year is a time for lists, the beginning of a year is the time for taking stock of the Chinese poetry titles that appeared in last year's \"best of\" lists. 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