{"id":920,"date":"2012-05-15T10:27:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T02:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=920"},"modified":"2012-05-15T11:01:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T03:01:35","slug":"jade-ladder-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"Jade Ladder Arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I received my copy of Jade Ladder: Contemporary Chinese Poetry<\/em> <\/a>from Bloodaxe Books yesterday. Edited by Yang Lian \u6768\u70bc<\/a>, W N Herbert<\/a>, Brian Holton<\/a>, and Qin Xiaoyu\u00a0\u79e6\u6653\u5b87, it’s brimming with Chinese poetry from the last thirty-five years, mostly translated by Holton with Lee Man-Kay \u674e\u6f2b\u742a and \/ or Herbert. Jade Ladder<\/em> includes five Xi Chuan poems–one, “Exercises in Thought” \u601d\u60f3\u7ec3\u4e60, in my translation (which Herbert calls “marvellous work”!), one in Holton’s translation, and two done by Xi Chuan with Bill Herbert. This allows for readers to get a sense of how different translators work, and of course to see different aspects of Xi Chuan’s poetry as they find different expressions in English.<\/p>\n

Also of interest, both to scholars and general readers, are the preface by Herbert, the introduction by Yang Lian, the essays by Qin Xiaoyu, and the afterword by Holton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I received my copy of Jade Ladder: Contemporary Chinese Poetry from Bloodaxe Books yesterday. Edited by Yang Lian \u6768\u70bc, W N Herbert, Brian Holton, and Qin Xiaoyu\u00a0\u79e6\u6653\u5b87, it’s brimming with Chinese poetry from the last thirty-five years, mostly translated by … 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":[342,3,12,16,7],"tags":[174,511,165,173,1654,21],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-eQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":187,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=187","url_meta":{"origin":920,"position":0},"title":"Jade Ladder: Contemporary Chinese Poetry","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"October 28, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I just received the press release for another anthology contemporary Chinese poetry, this one edited by Yang Lian \u6768\u70bc and William Herbert (with Brian Holton and Qin Xiaoyu \u79e6\u6653\u5b87 as associate editors) under the title Jade Ladder. 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