{"id":378,"date":"2011-11-22T09:09:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T01:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=378"},"modified":"2011-11-22T09:09:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T01:09:28","slug":"caging-a-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=378","title":{"rendered":"Caging a Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Xi Chuan discussed the state of publishing in China and read his co-translations of Norwegian poet Olav H. Hauge<\/a> with Harald B\u00f8ckman<\/a> during Chinese Literature Week<\/a> at Norway’s Litteraturehuset<\/a>–with “around 4,000 attendees at 30-some events,” according to Paper Republic<\/a>‘s Eric Abrahamsen<\/a>–but what seems to have been the most newsworthy event was the talk by Murong Xuecun \u6155\u5bb9\u96ea\u6751 titled “Caging a Monster<\/a>” \u628a\u91ce\u517d\u5173\u8fdb\u7b3c\u5b50 (translated by Jane Weizhen Pan<\/a> & Martin Merz<\/a>). In light of Xi Chuan’s notion of his poetics as based on contemporary China’s oxymoronism, I cite the following quotation from Murong’s speech:<\/p>\n

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My country is capable of launching a satellite into space but not of building a safe bridge across a river. My country is capable of building palatial government offices yet condemns children to substandard schoolhouses. My country provides millions of luxury cars to government official yet few safe school buses for children. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Xi Chuan discussed the state of publishing in China and read his co-translations of Norwegian poet Olav H. Hauge with Harald B\u00f8ckman during Chinese Literature Week at Norway’s Litteraturehuset–with “around 4,000 attendees at 30-some events,” according to Paper Republic‘s Eric … 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":[3,16,7],"tags":[97,172,170,110,169,100,171,98,1654],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-66","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":338,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=338","url_meta":{"origin":378,"position":0},"title":"Chinese Week at Norway’s Litteraturhuset","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"As I mentioned yesterday, Xi Chuan flew from Hongkong to Norway, where he's participating in Chinese Literature week at the House of Literature along with Wang Hui \u6c6a\u6656, Murong Xuecun \u6155\u5bb9\u96ea\u6751, Ma Jian \u9a6c\u5efa, Leslie T. 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