{"id":99,"date":"2011-10-11T10:05:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T02:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2011-10-30T19:20:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T11:20:08","slug":"contemporary-poetry-from-china-at-the-library-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"“Contemporary Poetry from China” at the Library of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last stop for Xi Chuan & Zhou Zan’s reading tour of the US will be The Library of Congress<\/a> for “Contemporary Poetry from China: A Reading and Discussion,” which will start at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 12<\/strong>, in the Mumford Room on the sixth floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The last stop for Xi Chuan & Zhou Zan’s reading tour of the US will be The Library of Congress for “Contemporary Poetry from China: A Reading and Discussion,” which will start at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 12, in … 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":[3,9,7],"tags":[24,25,1654],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-1B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1128,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1128","url_meta":{"origin":99,"position":0},"title":"Contemporary Poetry from China: A Reading and Discussion with Xi Chuan and Zhou Zan","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"August 30, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/l4PhZxQTD_E Poetry reading and discussion with Xi Chuan and Zhou Zan\u00a0\u5468\u74d2 at the Library of Congress last October in promotion of Push Open the Window. 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