{"id":4920,"date":"2020-11-30T09:30:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T01:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4920"},"modified":"2021-04-05T08:30:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T00:30:22","slug":"ridgway-reviews-kleins-organization-of-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4920","title":{"rendered":"Ridgway reviews Klein’s Organization of Distance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Benjamin Ridgway’s review of Klein’s Organization of Distance<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The MCLC Resource Center has published Benjamin Ridgway’s review of my academic monograph, The Organization of Distance, Poetry, Translation, Chineseness<\/a><\/em> (Brill, 2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He’s got lots of criticism as well as praise, but ends up saying the book is as important as the poetry of Huang Tingjian \u9ec3\u5ead\u5805 (1045-1105). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huang\u2019s strikingly idiosyncratic, difficult, dense, and sometimes confusing poetry is not beloved by all, but it did herald a new direction in Chinese poetics that challenged both his admirers and detractors to respond. I think that the same could be said of The Organization of Distance<\/em>. There is a distinct synthetic quality to portions of the book … that is going to rub some readers the wrong way. However, the challenge of Klein\u2019s insights will be of interest and importan[ce] to a range of audiences. His book, quite amazingly, speaks to scholars and readers of both modern and classical Chinese poetry, engaging the scholarship from both of these fields while challenging its members to think outside their disciplinary boxes. The book is suitable for in-depth graduate seminars, especially on the topics of translation and translingual practice … Klein\u2019s book is important because his arguments are in dialogue with a larger movement to reconsider the global dimensions of the medieval world, both the way in which poetry during the Tang-Song period borrowed objects and translated ideas from broader global exchanges of the past and the way that this poetry continues to be recast and reinvented by poets of China\u2019s present.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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

The MCLC Resource Center has published Benjamin Ridgway’s review of my academic monograph, The Organization of Distance, Poetry, Translation, Chineseness (Brill, 2018). 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