Posts Tagged ‘intellectuals’
5月 11, 2020
He Jin
1977
It was a beautiful time,
it was a fucking bad time.
We supposed-to-be-educated youths went off to exams
and more than half fell through.
If I had managed to fill in those two blanks,
I would have survived.
Who was Cao Xueqin?
Who was Qin Keqing?
Forward to now, Cao wrote Dream of the Red Chamber, everyone knows.
Qin Keqing, she’s one of 12 beauties
in the mystery novel,
the one most tight with Sister Feng.
In that blank space,
I drew a cow turd.
In the space for Cao Xueqin, because I was mad,
I wrote he was the third little girl
of old Cao
in our backyard.
2/10/20
Translated by MW, May 2020
He Jin, orig. name Jin Weixin, Muslim Hui nationality, born in the last lunar month of 1956. Published a story collection, one book of poetry and one book of essays. Poems and stories appeared in anthologies. In January 2018 he founded the poetry magazine Xiao Shi Jie (Small Verse World). He lives in Jilin city. 《新诗典》小档案：何金，原名金伟信，回族，1956年腊月出生。著有小说集《沉默的星空》、诗集《身体的宣言》、随笔集《平民天堂》。作品收入《中国口语诗年鉴》（2019年卷）、《中国回族文学通史·当代卷》。2018年1月创办《小诗界》诗刊，现居吉林市。
标签：Cultural Revolution, culture, dreams, exams, feelings, He Jin, high school, history, intellect, intellectuals, knowledge, literature, memory, novels, NPC, people, school, stories, tradition, University, youth, 新世纪詩典, 何金
发表在 18th century, 1950s, 1956, 1960s, 1970s, 1977, 1980s, 1990s, 2000, 2000s, 2010s, 2020, 20th century, 21st century, Antique times, April 2020, February 2020, May 2020, Middle Ages, NPC, poetry, prose, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
5月 11, 2018
Jun Er
XUEFENG SPRICHT VON EINEM BERÜHMTEN INTELLEKTUELLEN POETEN
man trinkt tee im teehaus
er bestellt bier
als das bier kommt
nippt er und sagt es sei schlecht
sie eilen schnell in ein anderes hotel
er nippt wieder
fragt
gibts hier frische mädchen
Übersetzt von MW im Mai 2018
标签：art, beauty, beer, famous, girls, hotel, intellect, intellectuals, Jun Er, Jun'er, NPC, order, people, poetry, poets, tea, teahouse, 君儿, 君兒, 新世纪诗典
发表在 2017, 2018, 20th century, 21st century, May 2017, May 2018, Middle Ages, NPC, poetry, Stone Age, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
1月 17, 2011
Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese dissident sentenced to 11 years on Dec.25th 2009 for “inciting subversion“, was awarded the Nobel Peace prize in absentia in Oslo on Dec. 10th, 2010. Liu’s old friend and Independent Chinese PEN co-founder Bei Ling has written a biography of Liu Xiaobo. Bei Ling started off from an essay he wrote in June 1989 in New York, after Liu Xiaobo had been arrested in Beijing in the aftermath of the massacre throughout the city, as People’s Liberation Army troops forced their way through the streets blocked by protesters in the last phase of the demonstrations on Tian’anmen Square. Liu Xiaobo had returned to China from New York and led a hunger strike of intellectuals on the square, supporting the students and Beijing residents in their demands for civil liberties. Bei Ling‘s essay from 1989 was re-published in Chinese in Hongkong and Taiwan in June 2009, and in the German newspaper FAZ on October 12th, 2010, a few days after the Nobel Peace prize announcement from Oslo. Soon after, the German publisher Riva expressed interest in a biography of Liu. Bei Ling had recently written a literary memoir of his years a Beijing underground poet in the 1980s and a literary magazine editor, shuttling between China and foreign countries, in the 1990s. Liu Xiaobo and other old friends such as Liao Yiwu are important figures in Bei Ling’s memoir, to be published by Suhrkamp in Germany this year. So Bei Ling was ready to write his biography of Liu Xiaobo on short notice. It was a crazy idea, but it worked. We worked around the clock in November 2010, and in early December the book hit the shelves. In the first week, from Dec. 9 to 16, it sold 2500 volumes, according to the publisher. Since then, Bei Ling’s biography of Liu Xiaobo has been reviewed in many newspapers, magazines, on TV and radio stations etc. throughout Germany and in neighbouring countries. This month (January 2011), according to the publisher, the book has started to appear on the Spiegel magazine’s bestseller list, the standard list in the German-speaking realm. On January 11th, 2011, a symposion with Bei Ling, Prof. Weigelin-Schwiedrzik， Prof. Findeisen, Prof. Zhu Jiaming, Dr. Felix Wemheuer and others was held at Vienna University and met with great interest among students and teachers from various faculties. See here …
Liu Xiaobo biographer Bei Ling at Vienna University on Jan. 11th, 2011. Photo: Angelika Burgsteiner
标签：11 years, censorship, china, Chinese Studies, civil rights, civil society, freedom of speech, intellectuals, literature, Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace prize, politics, prison, prisoners of conscience, reporting, subversion, Vienna University, writing
发表在 January 2011, Translations, Uncategorized, Welcome! | 5 Comments »
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