{"id":793,"date":"2012-03-13T11:21:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T03:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=793"},"modified":"2012-03-13T11:25:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T03:25:28","slug":"interview-with-dung-kai-cheung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=793","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Dung Kai-cheung"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Hong Kong Advanced Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Studies<\/a> has just posted Cris Mattison’s interview<\/a> with Hong Kong writer Dung Kai-cheung \u8463\u555f\u7ae0, one of the SAR’s most inventive authors. His novel Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City<\/em><\/a> \u5730\u5716\u96c6, which mixes fiction with documentary history to chronicle the city of Hong Kong, will be out this summer in English translation by Bonnie McDougall<\/a> and Anders Hansson<\/a>. Here’s an excerpt from the interview where he discusses his work as related to translation and world literature in the broad sense, responding to a critique people have leveled against certain writers of modern Chinese literature for nearly a century (I expect Xi Chuan would give a similar response):<\/p>\n

DKC: I said my language is influenced by English because since I studied Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong much of my reading has been done in English. The influence is not just in terms of subject matter and literary forms but also of sentence structure and diction. My Chinese has been regarded by some language purists as \u201cEuropeanized,\u201d which is meant to be a criticism for not writing in a proper Chinese. It is in this sense that I said the language of Atlas<\/em> \u201clends itself to translation.\u201d By this I mean not that it is simple to translate, nor do I mean that it is written with the intention of being translated, and thus gaining international attention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hong Kong Advanced Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Studies has just posted Cris Mattison’s interview with Hong Kong writer Dung Kai-cheung \u8463\u555f\u7ae0, one of the SAR’s most inventive authors. His novel Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City \u5730\u5716\u96c6, which mixes … 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":[430,429,431,428],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-cN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1592,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1592","url_meta":{"origin":793,"position":0},"title":"Lucas Klein on Dung Kai-cheung’s Atlas","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"January 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"My review of Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City, by Dung Kai-cheung \u8463\u555f\u7ae0 and translated by the author with Anders Hansson and Bonnie S. 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