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In Asymptote January 2012: Wolfgang Kubin on Ouyang Jianghe
I fear the return to “tradition” is an outdated model. All superb poetry is international poetry—it is no longer “national.”
The eminent writer and translator, Wolfgang Kubin, reflects on the cultural issues facing contemporary Chinese poetry, as raised by the writing of Ouyang Jianghe. How can Chinese poetry shed its political baggage, compete with the growing fashion for writing in English, and find a space for itself within the global literary tradition?
EJ
[Wolfgang Kubin’s essay is accompanied by the poetry of Ouyang Jianghe himself, translated superbly from the Chinese by Austin Woerner. The translator also offers us his thoughts on the process of translating Ouyang Jianghe; the image by Legend Hou Chun-Ming featured above has been used to illustrate this essay.]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly4i94Aos01qfvw54o1_1280.jpg)
In Asymptote January 2012: Wolfgang Kubin on Ouyang Jianghe
I fear the return to “tradition” is an outdated model. All superb poetry is international poetry—it is no longer “national.”
The eminent writer and translator, Wolfgang Kubin, reflects on the cultural issues facing contemporary Chinese poetry, as raised by the writing of Ouyang Jianghe. How can Chinese poetry shed its political baggage, compete with the growing fashion for writing in English, and find a space for itself within the global literary tradition?
EJ
[Wolfgang Kubin’s essay is accompanied by the poetry of Ouyang Jianghe himself, translated superbly from the Chinese by Austin Woerner. The translator also offers us his thoughts on the process of translating Ouyang Jianghe; the image by Legend Hou Chun-Ming featured above has been used to illustrate this essay.]
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