{"id":429,"date":"2011-12-18T11:01:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T03:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=429"},"modified":"2011-12-18T11:01:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T03:01:07","slug":"almost-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"Almost Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of the upcoming China – India Writers Dialogues<\/a>, I wanted to point out the journal Almost Island<\/a>, whose editors Sharmistha Mohanty<\/a> and Vivek Narayanan<\/a> have been organizing the Dialogues.<\/p>\n

See also the Almost Island publication of Mohanty’s essay on her experiences in China, “Mountains and Rivers<\/a>“; Xi Chuan only gets the briefest of mentions (Bei Dao \u5317\u5c9b, Ouyang Jianghe \u6b27\u9633\u6c5f\u6cb3, and Li Tuo \u674e\u9640 get fuller discussions), but it’s a grand take on one writer’s considerations of China and its contrasts with India. Also the prose poem “Editorial Sutras<\/a>,” which offers Mohanty’s impressions of the first Chinese – Indian Writers’ Dialogue, in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In honor of the upcoming China – India Writers Dialogues, I wanted to point out the journal Almost Island, whose editors Sharmistha Mohanty and Vivek Narayanan have been organizing the Dialogues. See also the Almost Island publication of Mohanty’s essay … 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":[282,12,16,7],"tags":[50,237,236,240,69,1654],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-6V","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":512,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=512","url_meta":{"origin":429,"position":0},"title":"India-China Writers Dialogues","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"December 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Xi Chuan will be traveling to Mumbai soon for the India-China Writers Dialogues. 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