{"id":3429,"date":"2016-03-02T09:30:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T01:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3429"},"modified":"2016-02-26T10:19:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T02:19:27","slug":"contemporary-chinese-poetry-in-pangolin-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3429","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Chinese Poetry in Pangolin House"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2016-02-26_1002\"<\/a>The new issue of Pangolin House<\/em> <\/a>features translations of poems by Liu Wai-tong \u5ed6\u5049\u68e0 and Zhang Shuguang \u5f20\u66d9\u5149, translated by Diana Shi and George O’Connell.<\/p>\n

From Liu Wai-tong’s \u8b80\u4e2d\u5510\u53f2 “Mid-Tang History”:<\/p>\n

On the riverbank, the rebel army
\npassing with torches,
\nsinging some barbaric tune.
\nLet them; I can\u2019t make out a word.
\nToday, my white shift tattered,
\nI\u2019m more like a flower.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

The new issue of Pangolin House features translations of poems by Liu Wai-tong \u5ed6\u5049\u68e0 and Zhang Shuguang \u5f20\u66d9\u5149, translated by Diana Shi and George O’Connell. From Liu Wai-tong’s \u8b80\u4e2d\u5510\u53f2 “Mid-Tang History”: On the riverbank, the rebel army passing with torches, … 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":[295,296,705,1701,1140,131],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-Tj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2656,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2656","url_meta":{"origin":3429,"position":0},"title":"Wang Jiaxin at City of Asylum","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"October 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Wang Jiaxin \u738b\u5bb6\u65b0 Performed as part of the City of Asylum\/Pittsburgh's Jazz Poetry Concert in 2013: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=duU5HiIoD9A (Wang's reading starts at about 1:19:30). 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