{"id":497,"date":"2011-12-11T11:55:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T03:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=497"},"modified":"2011-12-11T11:55:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T03:55:37","slug":"review-of-chas-china-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Review of Cha’s “China Issue”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rare are reviews of literary journals, but over at Lantern Review<\/a>‘s “Panax Ginseng” Henry W. Leung has a write-up of Cha<\/em>‘s “China issue”<\/a>–where five of my translations from Xi Chuan\u2019s \u201cThirty Historical Reflections<\/a>\u201d \u9274\u53f2\u4e09\u5341\u7ae0 appeared–in which he looks at poetic representations of China in English and in Chinese as translated into English. I don’t know if he didn’t read the Xi Chuan or just has nothing to say about his work, but I was impressed by the opening:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe China Issue<\/a>\u201d of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal<\/em> presents itself with an ambiguous title. It is the journal\u2019s literary issue on China, but it might just as well be \u2018the issue of China,\u2019 i.e. the problem of it, a claim to authority and singularity; or simply \u2018the issue of representing China,\u2019 the question of it, the difficulty. \u2018China\u2019 as a thematic boundary is naturally complex for a journal based in Hong Kong\u2014but virtually, over the internet\u2014and presented in English. Most of this issue\u2019s poems are translations<\/a> from the Chinese, with the originals preserved; of these, few refer explicitly to or narrow themselves by locality… Some of the poems written in English, however, announce their \u2018Chineseness\u2019 with archetypal localities, such as romanticized pastorals of farmland China, or romance recalled as manufacture…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rare are reviews of literary journals, but over at Lantern Review‘s “Panax Ginseng” Henry W. Leung has a write-up of Cha‘s “China issue”–where five of my translations from Xi Chuan\u2019s \u201cThirty Historical Reflections\u201d \u9274\u53f2\u4e09\u5341\u7ae0 appeared–in which he looks at poetic … 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":[3,12,16,7],"tags":[178,278,277],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-81","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":399,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=399","url_meta":{"origin":497,"position":0},"title":"Fourth Anniversary Issue of Cha","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 25, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The fourth anniversary issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now live. 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