{"id":3988,"date":"2018-03-07T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T01:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3988"},"modified":"2018-02-21T19:37:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T11:37:32","slug":"edmond-on-being-censored-in-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3988","title":{"rendered":"Edmond on Being Censored in Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>At his blog, Jacob Edmond writes about being censored in a Chinese publication<\/a>. Edmond reviewed Maghiel van Crevel\u2019s\u00a0Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money\u00a0(2008) <\/em>for The China Quarterly<\/em> in 2011<\/a>, and agreed for it to be translated into Chinese for the Journal of Modern Chinese Studies<\/em> (\u73b0\u4ee3\u4e2d\u6587\u5b66\u520a)<\/a>. But,<\/p>\n

the Chinese version [of van Crevel’s book] lacks the chapter on \u201cExile,\u201d which includes discussion of poems written by Bei Dao \u5317\u5c9b<\/em>, Wang Jiaxin \u738b\u5bb6\u65b0<\/em>, and Yang Lian \u6768\u70bc<\/em> after the Chinese government\u2019s violent 4 June 1989 suppression of dissent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And as a result, Edmond’s review had to be censored as well.<\/p>\n

In approving the translation of my review, I faced the same dilemma that Van Crevel and these publishers and editors face in deciding whether to allow their work to be censored: refuse to change anything and so lose the possibility of addressing a Chinese audience, or make the changes and hope that one\u2019s translated words and the mute marks of censored omissions might communicate better than the total silence of refusal. Van Crevel\u2019s is an excellent book on contemporary Chinese poetry: I stand by my review\u2019s description of it as the \u201cdefinitive sourcebook.\u201d It therefore deserves a wide audience in China, where its insights are most relevant. Cutting one chapter was the price of that audience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But, as he continues, “The pressures and choices are not, of course, the same in every situation.” He concludes with lessons that are, “like censorship itself, eminently\u2014and frighteningly\u2014translatable.”<\/p>\n

Click the image above for his full blog entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At his blog, Jacob Edmond writes about being censored in a Chinese publication. Edmond reviewed Maghiel van Crevel\u2019s\u00a0Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money\u00a0(2008) for The China Quarterly in 2011, and agreed for it to be translated into … 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":[50,354,309,132,21],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-12k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4693,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4693","url_meta":{"origin":3988,"position":0},"title":"Announcing publication of Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 29, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs We are pleased to announce publication of\u00a0Chinese Poetry\u00a0and Translation: Rights and Wrongs\u00a0(Amsterdam University\u00a0Press, 2019). 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