{"id":970,"date":"2012-06-09T11:13:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T03:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=970"},"modified":"2012-06-09T11:13:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T03:13:04","slug":"julia-lovell-on-liu-xiaobos-no-enemies-no-hatred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Julia Lovell on Liu Xiaobo’s No Enemies, No Hatred"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"200\"<\/a>Julia Lovell’s review of No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems<\/em><\/a> of Liu Xiaobo<\/a> \u5218\u6653\u6ce2, edited by Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao, and Liu Xia, is now up on Modern Chinese Literature & Culture<\/a>. Here’s an excerpt:<\/p>\n

Reflecting Liu’s own political turn after 1989, the editors of No Enemies, No Hatred<\/em> have focused on his more engaged writings–those that led to his most recent prison sentence and that played a significant part in his winning the Nobel Prize–rather than on his literary criticism. Unsurprisingly, the events of spring 1989 loom large throughout the collection, for these protests and their aftermath would prove to be a turning point in Liu’s career and personal life. In the years preceding 1989, he had won notoriety in China primarily for his contrarian literary and cultural views: for excoriating Chinese creative writing of both the Maoist and post-Mao eras. “Shit, the Chinese are just hopeless,” he impishly declared, condemning the new avant-garde writing of the 1980s as stagnant, repetitive, and imitative. In America when the Tiananmen protests broke out, he vowed to “do” rather than “just talk,” and flew back to Beijing to become one of the movement’s leaders. His involvement in the demonstrations led to the loss of his Beijing teaching post, two jail sentences before his 2009 trial, and a publication ban in mainland China.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite being a translator herself, Lovell does not mention translation in her review. Nor does she discuss the poetry included in the volume, though she does mention, parenthetically, that “(Those interested primarily in Liu’s poetry can refer to a new parallel-text edition translated by Jeffrey Yang<\/a>, entitled June Fourth Elegies<\/em><\/a>.)” I would have been interested in seeing a review that could look at both books together, or at least describe the role of the poetry in assessing Liu’s writing–why, for instance, is it included in No Enemies, No Hatred<\/em> at all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Julia Lovell’s review of No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems of Liu Xiaobo \u5218\u6653\u6ce2, edited by Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao, and Liu Xia, is now up on Modern Chinese Literature & Culture. Here’s an excerpt: Reflecting Liu’s own … 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],"tags":[45,382,556,553,554,555],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-fE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3820,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3820","url_meta":{"origin":970,"position":0},"title":"Admussen on Liu Xiaobo’s Love Poetry","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"July 31, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"In honor of the recent passing of Liu Xiaobo \u5218\u6653\u6ce2, here is a link to an old piece, which had slipped by without my noticing it when it was first published: Nick Admussen's \"Awkward, Diligent: Liu Xiaobo's Love Poetry\" for his wife, Liu Xia \u5218\u971e. 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