{"id":733,"date":"2012-02-20T11:13:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T03:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=733"},"modified":"2012-02-20T11:13:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T03:13:51","slug":"the-85-project-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"The 85 Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"fancybox-content\" style=\"border-width: 0px; width: 513px; height: 504px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.85bawu.com\/About.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"fancybox-img\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.85bawu.com\/Assets\/images\/qianshijin1fz.png?resize=584%2C573\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"573\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A while back I published an excerpt from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.85bawu.com\/About.aspx?l=en-us\" target=\"_blank\">The 85 Project<\/a>,&#8221; linking medieval Chinese verse with Talmudic mysticism, on <a href=\"http:\/\/cipherjournal.com\/html\/majzels.html\" target=\"_blank\">CipherJournal<\/a>; a few years later, I ran into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.85bawu.com\/Bios.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Majzels and Claire Huot<\/a> at a conference in New Orleans. I came across the fuller presentation of their works online, and I pass it on to readers of this blog interested in poetic takes on Chinese writing and its connections around the world:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>The \u201c85\u201d project is a poetic multi-media investigation into the reception of the Chinese language and culture into English. The operation involves several transfers: from the original Chinese text into a literal character-for-word translation, then into 85 English letters, and into a visual poem. The visual poem is subsequently read aloud, and that reading is videotaped. Readers struggle to assemble words and phrases, creating if only for a moment the strange experience of speaking another culture. Concomitantly, the potential of reading English is unlocked by the permutation of letters. The reader of an 85 becomes a writer who manipulates language in its materiality.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I published an excerpt from &#8220;The 85 Project,&#8221; linking medieval Chinese verse with Talmudic mysticism, on CipherJournal; a few years later, I ran into Robert Majzels and Claire Huot at a conference in New Orleans. I came &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=733\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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],"tags":[372,371],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-bP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2108,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2108","url_meta":{"origin":733,"position":0},"title":"Poetry on Fire: Xi Chuan &#038; Helen Wing at M Restaurant Beijing","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"August 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Xi Chuan & Helen Wing: Poetry on Fire Sunday,\u00a0August 25, 4 p.m. RMB 75, includes one drink \u00a0 Poets Helen Wing and Xi Chuan come together to explore the idea of poetry as fire, from the fire imagery in their poems to their views on how the poetic imagination spreads,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Links&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4695,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4695","url_meta":{"origin":733,"position":1},"title":"Krenz on Chinese Poetic Modernisms edited by Lupke and Manfredi","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 25, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Joanna Krenz on Chinese Poetic Modernisms MCLC has published Joanna Krenz\u2019s review of Chinese Poetic Modernisms (Brill, 2019), edited by Paul Manfredi and Christopher Lupke, which includes my chapter \u201cAnnotating Aporias of History: the \u2018International Style\u2019, Chinese Modernism, and World Literature in Xi Chuan\u2019s Poetry.\u201d She writes: one need only\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Links&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/u.osu.edu\/mclc\/files\/2019\/11\/31cBxX1bSoL._SX326_BO1204203200_-197x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2201,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2201","url_meta":{"origin":733,"position":2},"title":"Forum on Chinese Poetic Culture","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"September 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Forum\u2019s primary mission is to establish an open platform for promoting the learning and teaching of Chinese poetry and poetic culture.\u00a0 The Forum strives to provide a broad range of services for students, scholars, and all Chinese poetry lovers.\u00a0 In particular, it shall assist with information sharing, publicity, publication,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Links&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1064,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1064","url_meta":{"origin":733,"position":3},"title":"Yunte Huang&#8217;s SHI: A Radical Reading of Chinese Poetry","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"July 28, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"On his blog at Jacket2 Charles Bernstein has posted Yunte Huang's \u9ec3\u904b\u7279introduction to his 1997 book SHI: A Radical Reading of Chinese Poetry. 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