{"id":813,"date":"2012-03-23T12:37:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T04:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=813"},"modified":"2012-03-23T12:37:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T04:37:44","slug":"chris-livaccari-on-overcoming-misconceptions-about-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"Chris Livaccari on Overcoming Misconceptions about China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/03\/21\/china_stereotypes_debunked\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"attachment-lg_horizontal wp-post-image aligncenter\" title=\"china\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.salon.com\/2012\/03\/china-460x307.png?resize=460%2C307\" alt=\"china\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/03\/21\/china_stereotypes_debunked\/\" target=\"_blank\">Salon.com<\/a> posted an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/asiasociety.org\/chris-livaccari\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Livaccari of the Asia Society<\/a> (New York) with a guided reading list of how to overcome misconceptions about China. Here&#8217;s how he begins his responses:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I recently asked some school kids, \u201cIf you had the opportunity to go to China today, what do you think you would see?\u201d One of the students said there would be a lot of lanterns everywhere, a lot of red, and a lot of dragons. I thought, \u201cWow. If this kid stepped into Shanghai in 2012, he would really be bowled over.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The books he mentions are Robert Ramsey&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com.hk\/books\/about\/The_Languages_of_China.html?id=2E_5nR0SoXoC&amp;redir_esc=y\" target=\"_blank\">The Languages of China<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0Joanna Waley-Cohen&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com.hk\/books\/about\/The_Sextants_of_Beijing.html?id=TeCYXRkc_UUC&amp;redir_esc=y\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Sextants of Beijing<\/em><\/a>, Zhuangzi \u838a\u5b50 as translated by Victor Mair (called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com.hk\/books\/about\/Wandering_on_the_way.html?id=dpFnYhV_ghIC&amp;redir_esc=y\" target=\"_blank\">Wandering on the Way<\/a><\/em>), the stories of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lu_Xun\" target=\"_blank\">Lu Xun <\/a>\u9b6f\u8fc5 (the article links to <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com.hk\/books\/about\/Diary_of_a_madman_and_other_stories.html?id=88K-bCZOY9UC&amp;redir_esc=y\" target=\"_blank\">William Lyell&#8217;s translations<\/a>), and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com.hk\/books\/about\/The_Story_of_the_Stone_The_golden_days.html?id=tCXuAAAAMAAJ&amp;redir_esc=y\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Story of the Stone<\/em><\/a> \u77f3\u982d\u8a18 by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cao_Xueqin\" target=\"_blank\">Cao Xueqin<\/a> \u66f9\u96ea\u82b9 and translated by David Hawkes and John Minford. Not surprisingly, his list contains no poetry. Perhaps one day somebody will compile a list like this and Xi Chuan will be on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salon.com posted an interview with Chris Livaccari of the Asia Society (New York) with a guided reading list of how to overcome misconceptions about China. Here&#8217;s how he begins his responses: I recently asked some school kids, \u201cIf you had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=813\">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":[3,16,7],"tags":[450,456,449,457,452,458,383,451,454,455,1654,453],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-d7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1362,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1362","url_meta":{"origin":813,"position":0},"title":"Chris Lupke on Xi Chuan","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Today's Book Review Seminar with Xi Chuan features Chris Lupke's review of my translations, Notes on the Mosquito. 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Here's an excerpt from what Xi Chuan had to say: \u00a0 on STYLE: Earlier I wrote lyrical poems,\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":912,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=912","url_meta":{"origin":813,"position":2},"title":"#XiChuan","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"May 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Scrounging through the series of tubes that make up the internet the other day I came across someone's Twitter feed from January, posting live updates from my event with Xi Chuan and Chris Lupke at the MLA. 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See also their earlier publication of my translation of five sections from Xi Chuan\u2019s \u201cThirty Historical Reflections\u201d \u9274\u53f2\u4e09\u5341\u7ae0 from their China Issue.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Links&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/September-2012-Cha.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4477,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4477","url_meta":{"origin":813,"position":4},"title":"Xi Chuan on Poetry and the Relationship between China and the West","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"March 8, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-d3_5lAT6MU Xi Chuan speaking at the Antipodean China workshop 23 November 2017","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Links&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/-d3_5lAT6MU\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":994,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=994","url_meta":{"origin":813,"position":5},"title":"Issue 17 of Cha Now Live","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"June 25, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The new issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now live. 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