{"id":3533,"date":"2016-08-08T09:30:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T01:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3533"},"modified":"2016-08-02T10:10:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T02:10:16","slug":"brian-holton-translator-ghostwriter-ghost-composer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3533","title":{"rendered":"Brian Holton, \u201cTranslator \/ Ghostwriter \/ Ghost Composer\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wKoI9S61Sko?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"watch7-headline\" class=\"clearfix\">\n<div id=\"watch-headline-title\">\n<h1 class=\"watch-title-container\"><span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"Renditions Distinguished Public Lecture on Literary Translation by Brian Holton\"> Renditions Distinguished Public Lecture on Literary Translation by Brian Holton: \u201cTranslator \/ Ghostwriter \/ Ghost Composer\u201d<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renditions Distinguished Public Lecture on Literary Translation by Brian Holton: \u201cTranslator \/ Ghostwriter \/ Ghost Composer\u201d<\/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":[11],"tags":[174],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-UZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3344,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3344","url_meta":{"origin":3533,"position":0},"title":"Brian Holton: &#8220;Translator \/ Ghostwriter \/ Ghost Composer&#8221; at CUHK","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"December 14, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Renditions Distinguished Lecture Series on Literary Translation \"Translator \/ Ghostwriter \/ Ghost Composer\" Speaker: Brian Holton Date: 16 December 2015 (Wednesday) Time: 4:30\u20136:00 p.m. (Tea reception: 4:00\u20134:30 p.m.) Venue: LT6, Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA), The Chinese University of Hong Kong","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Jade Ladder&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Jade Ladder","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=342"},"img":{"alt_text":"http:\/\/www.cuhk.edu.hk\/rct\/Images\/ad\/brian.jpg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cuhk.edu.hk\/rct\/Images\/ad\/brian.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1108,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1108","url_meta":{"origin":3533,"position":1},"title":"Bringing Chinese Poetry to the UK","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"August 17, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mjpLC6VSLGI from the Literary Translation Centre at the London Book Fair in April Chair David Constantine, Modern Poetry in Translation Speakers Nicky Harman, Translator W N Herbert, Newcastle University Brian Holton, Lecturer and Translator Yang Lian \u6768\u70bc, Poet","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Links&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/mjpLC6VSLGI\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4144,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4144","url_meta":{"origin":3533,"position":2},"title":"Klein on Holton&#8217;s Narrative Poem by Yang Lian","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"July 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"My review of Narrative Poem \u6558\u4e8b\u8bd7, by Yang Lian \u6768\u70bc and translated by Brian Holton (Bloodaxe, 2017), is out in the new issue of Translation and Literature\u00a0(Vol. 27, issue 2). 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