{"id":3270,"date":"2015-09-15T09:30:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T01:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2015-09-14T23:04:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T15:04:26","slug":"lupke-on-xiao-kaiyu-at-u-of-s-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3270","title":{"rendered":"Lupke on Xiao Kaiyu at U. of S. Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Rendering Neo-Expressionist Poet Xiao Kaiyu \u8427\u5f00\u611a\u00a0<\/span>into English<\/a><\/h2>\n

Tuesday, September 15, 2015 – 4:30pm<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Christopher Lupke, Washington State University<\/p>\n

Location:
\nWelsh Humanities Classroom Building, Room 304<\/a>, University of South Carolina<\/p>\n

Christopher Lupke will provide a reading of his translations of contemporary Chinese poet Xiao Kaiyu\u2019s work. Xiao Kaiyu is widely revered in China for the challenging structure and innovative use of language found in his verse. Spending several years in Germany, Xiao frequently comments obliquely on social issues facing ordinary people in China, on the pressures under which they labor, and on the ways they negotiate their practical and spiritual lives on a daily basis. The linguistic difficulty and profoundly serious subject matter are what first attracted Lupke to his work. Translating Xiao into English has been like solving a puzzle, but a puzzle that could be solved in many different ways, and in no way at all. It has been an extremely demanding process. In this reading and desultory discussion, Lupke argues that translation is one of the most difficult modes of creative writing that deserves to be considered alongside its more privileged siblings that are typically, but erroneously, deemed to be \u201coriginal\u201d work in contrast to the derivative nature of translation. Given the utter complexity of Xiao Kaiyu\u2019s work in its language-busting modes, and the fundamental differences in expression between Chinese and English, the work of the translator can be viewed as nothing less than a creative effort. Lupke\u2019s translations of Xiao Kaiyu\u2019s poetry have appeared in New England Review<\/em>, Five Points<\/em>, Free Verse<\/em>, Eleven Eleven<\/em>, Epiphany<\/em>, Michigan Quarterly Review<\/em>, Cha: An Asian Literary Review<\/em>, E-Ratio<\/em>, and Asymptote<\/em>, as well as some anthologies. He is currently seeking a publisher for a collection of Xiao\u2019s work in English.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Rendering Neo-Expressionist Poet Xiao Kaiyu \u8427\u5f00\u611a\u00a0into English Tuesday, September 15, 2015 – 4:30pm Dr. Christopher Lupke, Washington State University Location: Welsh Humanities Classroom Building, Room 304, University of South Carolina Christopher Lupke will provide a reading of his translations of … 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":[312,134],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-QK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3446,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3446","url_meta":{"origin":3270,"position":0},"title":"Lupke’s Xiao Kaiyu on Asymptote","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"March 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Asymptote has published new translations of Xiao Kaiyu\u00a0\u856d\u958b\u611a poetry by Christopher Lupke. 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