{"id":782,"date":"2012-03-09T11:10:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T03:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=782"},"modified":"2012-03-09T11:10:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T03:10:44","slug":"a-conversation-with-che-qianzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=782","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation with Che Qianzi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"grid_2 alpha\" style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ou.edu\/clt\/vol-2-1\/interview-mott.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ou.edu\/clt\/images\/backissuecovers\/2-1-2011-Issue-3.jpg?resize=130%2C170\" alt=\"March 2011 Issue\" width=\"130\" height=\"170\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ou.edu\/clt\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Chinese Literature Today<\/em><\/a>&#8216;s web presence is an interview with Chinese poet &amp; painter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryinternational.org\/piw_cms\/cms\/cms_module\/index.php?obj_id=6117\" target=\"_blank\">Che Qianzi<\/a> \u8f66\u524d\u5b50 conducted by my friend the American poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chax.org\/poets\/mott.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Glenn Mott<\/a>. It&#8217;s a fascinating and involved look at the ways in which ancient China and the contemporary world of internationalized influence flow through the work of cultural workers today. Full of many riches, it&#8217;s hard to excerpt, but here&#8217;s a passage I liked:<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid_2 alpha\" style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"right\"><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong>CQ: <\/strong>I am, or I might be, someone who has certain tendencies of mysticism but I am not a mystic. In my opinion, once the mystery becomes a doctrine, it becomes a research object, and when it becomes a research object, especially when it considers itself as the main body of research, mysticism is not mysterious any more. That\u2019s why I think mysticism is not mysterious at all, and that\u2019s also why I feel myself to be someone who has certain tendency of mystery, only this tendency is a more open view of nature and life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the full interview, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ou.edu\/clt\/vol-2-1\/interview-mott.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Chinese Literature Today&#8216;s web presence is an interview with Chinese poet &amp; painter Che Qianzi \u8f66\u524d\u5b50 conducted by my friend the American poet Glenn Mott. It&#8217;s a fascinating and involved look at the ways in which ancient China &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=782\">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":[409,332,410],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-cC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2440,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2440","url_meta":{"origin":782,"position":0},"title":"Qiu Xiaolong &#038; Jonathan Stalling at The Conversant","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"March 6, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Jonathan Stalling speaks with Qiu Xiaolong at TheConversant.org. 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