{"id":803,"date":"2012-03-18T13:15:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T05:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=803"},"modified":"2012-03-18T13:15:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T05:15:07","slug":"issue-16-of-cha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=803","title":{"rendered":"Issue 16 of Cha"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The new issue of Cha<\/em> <\/a>is now online. Take a look for poetry by Ricky Garni<\/a> (“the citizen <\/strong>is in a box, \/ his body parts fall \/ from his body. \/ he watches the \/ others who are free.”), nonfiction by Chelsea Bainbridge-Donner<\/a> (“I don’t remember my first train, but my mother does, and she loves to tell the story.”), Mani Rao’s review of new translations of Rabindranath Tagore<\/a> (“When so much contemporary literature generated in Indian languages goes untranslated, the Tagore phenomenon seems disproportionate. One cannot hold that against a translator, however.”), and more.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be guest-editing Cha<\/em>\u2018s \u201cAncient Asia Issue,\u201d scheduled to launch August 2013. See also their earlier publication of my translation of five sections from Xi Chuan\u2019s \u201cThirty Historical Reflections<\/a>\u201d \u9274\u53f2\u4e09\u5341\u7ae0 from their China Issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new issue of Cha is now online. Take a look for poetry by Ricky Garni (“the citizen is in a box, \/ his body parts fall \/ from his body. \/ he watches the \/ others who are free.”), … 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":[3,12,7],"tags":[178,440,441,442,439,1654],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-cX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=38","url_meta":{"origin":803,"position":0},"title":"Xi Chuan on Tagore and Modern Chinese Poetry","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"October 7, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I just came across the following video, a lecture by Xi Chuan in English from Spring, 2009, to the Columbia University Alumni Association in Beijing. 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