{"id":3152,"date":"2015-04-29T09:30:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2015-04-28T11:32:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T03:32:42","slug":"translation-chineseness-world-literature-in-chinese-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3152","title":{"rendered":"Translation, Chineseness, & World Literature in Chinese Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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May 8, 2015<\/strong> (Friday), 4:00-5:30 pm<\/div>\n
Room 730, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU<\/div>\n
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Foreign Echoes & Discerning the Soil:<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
Translation, Chineseness, & World Literature in Chinese Poetry<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Presenter: Lucas Klein; Commentator: Xiaofei Tian \u7530\u66c9\u83f2<\/div>\n
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What constitutes the relationship between world literature and Chineseness? How has translation shaped Chinese poetry, and can translation be understood as at the foundation not only of world literature, but of Chineseness, as well? This talk will begin to answer these questions by demonstrating how Chineseness as an aspect of the Chinese poetic tradition is itself a result of translation. Looking at Chinese poetry\u2019s negotiation with concepts central to translation\u2014nativization and foreignization, or the work\u2019s engagement with the Chinese historical heritage or foreign literary texts and contexts, respectively\u2014I argue not only that Chinese poetry can be understood as translation, but for an understanding of the role of such translation in the constitution of both Chineseness and world literature. After contextualizing recent debates in the field of Sinology and translation studies, I will examine the work of Bian Zhilin \u535e\u4e4b\u7433<\/em> (1910 \u2013 2000) and his implicit vision for a world literature able to merge the Chinese literary heritage with Western influence. Since debates around world literature, especially in Chinese literary studies, focus on the modern era, however, I shift focus with a discussion of the Tang dynasty (618 \u2013 907), when China had earlier become highly international, even cosmopolitan, in a detailed look at the history of regulated verse (l\u00fcshi \u5f8b\u8a69<\/em>), describing not only its origins in Sanskrit but how it maintained associations with Buddhism. Following this, I consider the work of Du Fu \u675c\u752b<\/em> (712 \u2013 770) to understand how the canonization of his work nativized regulated verse through its historiography. I conclude with a reconsideration of the ethics of world literature and translation in determining our understanding of the local.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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