{"id":4052,"date":"2018-05-09T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4052"},"modified":"2018-05-01T15:41:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T07:41:41","slug":"mair-on-zero-distance-anthology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4052","title":{"rendered":"Mair on Zero Distance Anthology"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Translator Denis Mair reviews<\/a> Liang Yujing’s Zero Distance: New Poetry from China <\/em>(Tinfish) for the International Examiner<\/em>:<\/p>\n

In the late 90s and early years of the new millennium, a polemical battle between \u201cintellectual writing\u201d and \u201cpopulist writing\u201d unfolded on Chinese websites … The populist camp was interested in developing China\u2019s own native modernism; the intellectual writing camp seemed committed to working through Western modernist currents that had been interrupted during China\u2019s period of leftist isolationism … we can hear reverberations of that clash in this concise anthology ably edited and translated by Liang Yujing. This svelte volume indeed gives English readers \u201ca glimpse of what is being written in China now.\u201d However, a random sampling would be confusing in a country where \u201cgood poetry can be found anytime anywhere\u2026and good unknown poets can be seen at every corner of the land.\u201d<\/p>\n

This collection hangs together because the translator mines an authentic vein of native modernism. It also earns the title Zero Distance<\/em> by affording glimpses into the life-experience of inquiring young minds since the new millennium.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full review by clicking on the image above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Translator Denis Mair reviews Liang Yujing’s Zero Distance: New Poetry from China (Tinfish) for the International Examiner: In the late 90s and early years of the new millennium, a polemical battle between \u201cintellectual writing\u201d and \u201cpopulist writing\u201d unfolded on Chinese … 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":[96,1845],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-13m","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4420,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4420","url_meta":{"origin":4052,"position":0},"title":"Denis Mair on Meng Lang","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"January 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"In honor of the passing of Meng Lang \u5b5f\u6d6a (1961 - 2018) on December 12 in Hong Kong, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal has published a commemorative piece by Denis Mair, his friend and translator: All these details are just the outer lineaments of Meng Lang\u2019s life, but his true\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2436,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2436","url_meta":{"origin":4052,"position":1},"title":"Chinese Literature Today","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"March 5, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The current issue of Chinese Literature Today features: Chinese Poets Writing in English (Qiu Xiaolong \u88d8\u5c0f\u9f99, Yun Wang, Wai-lim Yip \u8449\u7dad\u5ec9) Non-Chinese Poets Writing in Chinese (Jami Proctor-Xu, Denis Mair, Afaa Michael Weaver [translated by Lucas Klein]) Special features on Yu Jian \u4e8e\u575a and Wai-lim Yip Book reviews of Jacob\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ou.edu\/clt\/02-02\/images\/CLT_Issue5_Cover_6.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":336,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=336","url_meta":{"origin":4052,"position":2},"title":"International Poetry Nights Wrap-up","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The final reading of the International Poetry Nights Hong Kong 2011 took place last night, with Paul Muldoon (Ireland \/ USA), Tian Yuan \u7530\u539f (China\/Japan), and Yip Fai \u8449\u7147 (Hong Kong) reading. 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