{"id":444,"date":"2011-12-03T11:45:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T03:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=444"},"modified":"2011-12-03T11:45:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T03:45:56","slug":"chinese-poetry-posters-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Poetry Posters in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Continuing with the theme of Xi Chuan reports in German, here’s an article<\/a> summarizing some of the concerns and history of contemporary Chinese poetry, springboarding from the Chinese Poetry Poster campaign Xi Chuan organized for German cities a couple years ago.<\/p>\n

Again, if you don’t read German, you can find the Google-translated version here<\/a>. This translation, however, is considerably worse than the machine-translation of Xi Chuan’s interview I posted yesterday, though worse in an at times endearing manner. The “hermetic seal” poetry (German \u201ehermetischen Dichtung\u201c), for instance, is the computerized English version of the German term for menglong shi<\/em> \u6726\u80e7\u8bd7, which in English should be Obscure Poetry (often misleadingly translated as “Misty Poetry<\/a>“), the name of the poetry movement that emerged in China after the Cultural Revolution. And consider how the \u6211—-\u4e0d—-\u76f8—-\u4fe1 of\u00a0Bei Dao \u5317\u5cf6 comes out in English via the German: “I tell you, world, \/ I – think – not!” (for my translation with Clayton Eshleman <\/a>of this Bei Dao <\/a>poem, see this <\/a>or this<\/a>). I expect Wolfgang Kubin<\/a>‘s translation sounds better in German: \u201eIch sage dir, Welt, \/ ich \u2013 glaube \u2013 nicht!\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing with the theme of Xi Chuan reports in German, here’s an article summarizing some of the concerns and history of contemporary Chinese poetry, springboarding from the Chinese Poetry Poster campaign Xi Chuan organized for German cities a couple years … 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":[3,16,7],"tags":[50,61,229,1654],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-7a","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":452,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=452","url_meta":{"origin":444,"position":0},"title":"more Xi Chuan in German","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"December 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The next--and perhaps final--installment of news on Xi Chuan in German is the Xi Chuan German Wikipedia page. It's rather spare, but it's the only entry in a Western language, and it's longer than the Chinese listing. For an online encyclopedia entry on Xi Chuan in English, try the Encyclopedia\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":674,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=674","url_meta":{"origin":444,"position":1},"title":"Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture on Xi Chuan","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"January 30, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"A couple months ago I linked to the Xi Chuan Wikipedia page in German, and mentioned that no one had written a Wikipedia entry for him in English. 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