{"id":3397,"date":"2016-02-01T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T01:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3397"},"modified":"2016-01-18T09:45:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T01:45:56","slug":"goodman-on-chinese-poetry-scenes-in-larb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3397","title":{"rendered":"Goodman on Chinese Poetry Scenes in LARB"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.projects.iq.harvard.edu\/files\/styles\/profile_full\/public\/fairbank\/files\/goodman_eleanor_headshot_henan_crop.jpg?w=584\"<\/a>Last November Austin Dean interviewed Eleanor Goodman for the Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

What aspects of the lives and works of Chinese poets and writers are under-reported or under-acknowledged in English-language writing on China? In other words, what types of question should we be asking that we aren\u2019t currently thinking about? \u2028 <\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a wonderful question because it assumes that there are aspects that are widely reported and acknowledged. I would say the American reading public lacks virtually any exposure to or understanding of the contemporary poetry scene in China. Part of this is the paucity of translations (let alone of quality translations), and part of this is a lack of interest. Compared to Chinese readers, American readers tend to be incredibly narrow in their choices. We don\u2019t like to read literature in translation, we aren\u2019t curious about other literary scenes, and we\u2019d rather just be fed something sweet and simple than work to extract something from a foreign text. This is all a vast over-generalization, but I think it holds true writ large. If you go into a Chinese bookstore, perhaps a quarter of the shelf space will be taken up by translated books, many if not most of them recently translated into Chinese and prominently displayed. If you walk into an American bookstore (does anyone still do that?), you\u2019re unlikely to find anything similar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

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