{"id":3548,"date":"2016-09-05T09:30:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T01:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2016-09-03T11:18:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T03:18:09","slug":"jidi-majia-in-kiswahili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3548","title":{"rendered":"Jidi Majia in Kiswahili"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The poetry of Jidi Majia \u5409\u72c4\u9a6c\u52a0 is now available in Kiswahili! Quartz <\/a>writes:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jidi Majia, a writer from southwest China, once described himself as a Chinese poet with an \u201cAfrican complex.\u201d He emulated writers like Senegal\u2019s Leopold Sedar Senghor, Nigeria\u2019s Chinua Achebe, or Kenya\u2019s Ng\u0169g\u0129 wa Thiong\u2019o, cheered for the end of apartheid in South Africa, and cried when Nelson Mandela died … Now, the poetry of a man who has never set foot on the African continent can be read in Kiswahili, in a new collection called Maneno Ya Moto Kutoka China <\/em>or Words of Fire from China <\/em>… the first time a creative work of Chinese literature has been translated into the lingua franca<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Click the image for the full write-up.<\/p>\n

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The poetry of Jidi Majia \u5409\u72c4\u9a6c\u52a0 is now available in Kiswahili! Quartz writes: Jidi Majia, a writer from southwest China, once described himself as a Chinese poet with an \u201cAfrican complex.\u201d He emulated writers like Senegal\u2019s Leopold Sedar Senghor, Nigeria\u2019s … 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":[1733,722,1732,1735,1734],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-Ve","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1208,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1208","url_meta":{"origin":3548,"position":0},"title":"Jidi Majia at Chinese Literature Today","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"September 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Jidi Majia \u5409\u72c4\u9a6c\u52a0, translated by Denis Mair: Voice of the Bimo \u2014Dedicated to a Nuosu ritualist When you hear it It seems above all illusion Like a faint wisp of bluish smoke Why just now are the ranged mountains Felt to be filled with a timeless stillness? 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