{"id":3978,"date":"2018-02-26T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T01:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3978"},"modified":"2018-02-21T10:45:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T02:45:26","slug":"tsang-on-liu-waitongs-wandering-hong-kong-with-spirits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3978","title":{"rendered":"Tsang on Liu Waitong’s “Wandering Hong Kong with Spirits”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The \u201cWriting Hong Kong\u201d issue of Cha <\/em>features Janice Tsang’s review of Wandering Hong Kong with Spirits\u00a0<\/em><\/a>\u548c\u5e7d\u9748\u4e00\u8d77\u7684\u9999\u6e2f\u6f2b\u904a <\/span>by Liu Waitong\u00a0\u5ed6\u5049\u68e0 <\/span>(Zephyr Press \/ MCCM Creations), with translations by Enoch Yee-lok Tam, Desmond Sham, Audrey Heijins, Chan Lai-kuen and Cao Shuying.<\/p>\n

Tsang writes:<\/p>\n

While reading Wandering Hong Kong<\/em>, I was constantly reminded of the idea of \u201cdisappearance\u201d in Ackbar Abbas\u2019 book Hong Kong:<\/em> Culture and the Politics of Disappearance<\/em>\u2014disappearance not in the sense of vanishing and irreparable loss, but of displaced appearances. Photography is very potent in demonstrating this kind of \u201cdisappearance,\u201d as it simultaneously captures and freezes time in a frame, while also creating the realm of the image in the form of the artist\u2019s own unique representation. One is also always aware of selectivity and perspectives when doing photography.<\/p>\n

Liu Waitong\u2019s poetry is very much in tune with his observations of the world as a photographer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click on the image for the full review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The \u201cWriting Hong Kong\u201d issue of Cha features Janice Tsang’s review of Wandering Hong Kong with Spirits\u00a0\u548c\u5e7d\u9748\u4e00\u8d77\u7684\u9999\u6e2f\u6f2b\u904a by Liu Waitong\u00a0\u5ed6\u5049\u68e0 (Zephyr Press \/ MCCM Creations), with translations by Enoch Yee-lok Tam, Desmond Sham, Audrey Heijins, Chan Lai-kuen and Cao Shuying. … 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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1962,1519,1945,1502,1943,1942,1961,1140],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-12a","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2339,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2339","url_meta":{"origin":3978,"position":0},"title":"Announcing the Ancient Asia issue of Cha","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"December 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Announcing the Ancient Asia Issue of Cha (December 2013), featuring new translations of Chinese poetry by Xi Chuan, Tao Yuanming \u9676\u6df5\u660e, Du Fu \u675c\u752b, He Qifang \u4f55\u5176\u82b3, Xiao Kaiyu \u8096\u5f00\u611a, Liu Yong \u67f3\u6c38, the Shijing \u8a69\u7d93, Laozi \u8001\u5b50, Du Mu \u675c\u7267, and Li Shangyin \u674e\u5546\u96b1, and new work by Eliot\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-ash3\/1524595_780801405269085_1113494189_n.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-ash3\/1524595_780801405269085_1113494189_n.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-ash3\/1524595_780801405269085_1113494189_n.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3818,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3818","url_meta":{"origin":3978,"position":1},"title":"Graywolf Press on the Death of Liu Xiaobo","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"July 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Liu Xiaobo\u00a0\u5218\u6653\u6ce2, human rights activist, 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and poet, died on July 13, 2017--less than a month after he was granted medical parole for a terminal liver cancer diagnosis. 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