{"id":3353,"date":"2016-01-08T09:30:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T01:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2015-12-13T15:33:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T07:33:01","slug":"merediths-zhang-jiuling-in-ezra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3353","title":{"rendered":"Meredith’s Zhang Jiuling in Ezra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The new issue of Ezra<\/em> <\/a>is up, with a translation by Hyacinthus Meredith of a poem by Tang poet Zhang Jiuling \u5f35\u4e5d\u9f61 (678\u2013740)<\/span>. It begins:<\/p>\n

The orchid leaves soft drooping in the spring,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click on the image for the full issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new issue of Ezra is up, with a translation by Hyacinthus Meredith of a poem by Tang poet Zhang Jiuling \u5f35\u4e5d\u9f61 (678\u2013740). It begins: The orchid leaves soft drooping in the spring, Click on the image for the full … 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":[1686,1687],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-S5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2042,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2042","url_meta":{"origin":3353,"position":0},"title":"Mindy Zhang on Translating Chinese Poetry","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"June 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"When translating Chinese poetry, ancient or modern, one will find that the \u2018subject\u2019 of a sentence is often missing. 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