{"id":3640,"date":"2017-02-24T09:30:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T01:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2017-02-22T22:14:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T14:14:36","slug":"tammy-ho-on-contemporary-faces-of-the-river-merchants-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3640","title":{"rendered":"Tammy Ho on Contemporary Faces of the River Merchant\u2019s Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Writing at World Literature Today<\/em><\/a>, Tammy Ho Lai-ming \u4f55\u9e97\u660e talks about the “Contemporary Faces” of “The Merchant River\u2019s Wife: A Letter,” Ezra Pound’s translation of Changgan Xing<\/em> \u9577\u5e72\u884c by Tang poet Li Bai \u674e\u767d (whom he called Rihaku) in Cathay<\/em> (1915). Specifically, she focuses on contemporary extensions, responses, and rewritings: Luca L.\u2019s “Letter to Ru Yi, the River-Merchant\u2019s Wife”; “The Expat\u2019s Partner: An Email,” by Alistair Noon; and “Ghost Husband,” by\u00a0Ren\u00e9e M. Schell. Here’s how she ends her piece:<\/div>\n
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In his introduction to Derrida\u2019s ideas of deconstruction and photography, the painter Gerhard Richter suggests that translation means that \u201csomething is presented, interpreted, explained, and even understood in terms of something else<\/em>.\u201d Seen in this way, the three contemporary poems discussed can be called transgender, transtemporal, and transcultural translations of Li Bai\u2019s poem, read through the prism of Pound\u2019s rendering.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Writing at World Literature Today, Tammy Ho Lai-ming \u4f55\u9e97\u660e talks about the “Contemporary Faces” of “The Merchant River\u2019s Wife: A Letter,” Ezra Pound’s translation of Changgan Xing \u9577\u5e72\u884c by Tang poet Li Bai \u674e\u767d (whom he called Rihaku) in Cathay … 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":[1767,38,1770,1769,508,1288,1768,1025,176],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-WI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4844,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4844","url_meta":{"origin":3640,"position":0},"title":"Chinese Poetry in Translation on Hong Kong Protesting","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"August 5, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Recently I posted about my translations of poetry by Liu Waitong \u5ed6\u5049\u68e0 on Hong Kong Protesting. 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