The Scavenger of History, by Wyatt Mason
On Eliot Weinberger
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A Bird Translates Silence by Dennis Zhou | Poetry Foundation
Wong May updates the Tang Dynasty poets for the 21st century.
Source: poetryfoundation.org
A Magician of Chinese Poetry
Some people, and I am one, feel that Tang (618–907 CE) poetry is the finest literary art they have ever read. But does one need to learn Chinese in order to have such a view, or can classical Chinese poetry be adequately translated?In 1987 Eliot Weinberger, who has written brilliant essays on topics as various as the mystical I Ching (Book of Change), Buddha as “impostor,”
Source: chinafile.com