{"id":38,"date":"2011-10-07T09:43:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T01:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2011-10-30T19:16:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T11:16:51","slug":"xi-chuan-on-tagore-and-modern-chinese-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Xi Chuan on Tagore and Modern Chinese Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across the following video, a lecture by Xi Chuan in English from Spring, 2009, to the Columbia University Alumni Association in Beijing. He discusses the relationship between <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xu_Zhimo\" target=\"_blank\">Xu Zhimo \u5f90\u5fd7\u6469<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rabindranath_Tagore\" target=\"_blank\">Rabindranath Tagore<\/a> in the context of China, India, and the West and their impact on modern Chinese poetry (with honorable mentions of <a href=\"en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kenneth_Rexroth\" target=\"_blank\">Kenneth Rexroth<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amy_Lowell\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Lowell<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ezra_Pound\" target=\"_blank\">Ezra Pound<\/a>). He ends with a reading of the poem &#8220;My Grandma&#8221; \u6211\u5976\u5976 in Chinese, with my English translation read by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinwoerner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Woerner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<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\/EXzoF_StHIU?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<p>(apologies to readers in the PRC; I was unable to locate the video on Youku)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across the following video, a lecture by Xi Chuan in English from Spring, 2009, to the Columbia University Alumni Association in Beijing. He discusses the relationship between Xu Zhimo \u5f90\u5fd7\u6469 and Rabindranath Tagore in the context of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=38\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[3,9,16,11,7],"tags":[37,39,38,30,36,1654,35],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-C","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":580,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=580","url_meta":{"origin":38,"position":0},"title":"Xi Chuan on Tagore and Modern Chinese Poetry","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"December 29, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"In honor of the recently-concluded India-China Writers Dialogues, here's a re-post from October 7, in the earliest days of the Notes on the Mosquito blog: I just came across the following video, a lecture by Xi Chuan in English from Spring, 2009, to the Columbia University Alumni Association in Beijing.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;India-China Writers Dialogues&quot;","block_context":{"text":"India-China Writers Dialogues","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=282"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/EXzoF_StHIU\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":800,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=800","url_meta":{"origin":38,"position":1},"title":"Ocean of Poetry","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"March 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I just found out about Ocean of Poetry, a new website featuring all sorts of information and examples of classical Chinese poetry in English translation, edited by Stuart Carduner and translator J. 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