Blog Review 13: Mark Burnhope Reviews ‘Jade Ladder: Contemporary Chinese poetry’ edited by W.N. Herbert & Yang Lian with Brian Holton & Qin Xiaoyu
In his essay concluding Jade Ladder, Brian Holton discusses the trials, tribulations, negotiations and compromises involved in translating Chinese poetry into English. Some of Yang Lian and Qin Xiaoyu’s first choices were shelved, he writes, “because the joke just wasn’t…
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