Ezra Pound and China FROM THE PUBLISHER
Explores Ezra Pound's long fascination with Chinese literature and culture.
SYNOPSIS
EZRA POUND AND CHINA is the first collection to explore the American poet's
long
fascination with Chinese literature and culture. These essays consider how
Pound's engagement
with the Orient broadens the textual, cultural, and political boundaries of
his modernism. The
book's contributors discuss, among other topics, issues of cultural
transmission; the influence
of Pound's Chinese studies on twentieth-century poetics; the importance of
his work to
contemporary theories of translation; the effects of Confucianism, Buddhism,
Taoism, and
other religions on Pound's thought; Chinese music; Pound's reactions to World
War I and II;
the non-Han Chinese and the Na-Khi; Shangri-La in James Hilton's Lost Horizon
and its sources
in Joseph Rock; Pound's earthly paradise and his sources in neo-Platonic
philosophers and
Joseph Rock. Richly illustrated, the book draws readers into the heart of
Pound's vision.
EZRA POUND AND CHINA will become an invaluable resource to students and
scholars of
Pound, poetics, Confucianism, cultural studies, translation theory,
ethnography, neo-Platonism,
utopias, literary representations of war, and literary transmission and
reception.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
With Emily Mitchell Wallace's magisterial and beautiful study of Pound and
Joseph Rock
as its radiant center, Zhaoming Qian's gathering of enlightenments of
Pound's involvement
with Chinese culture is a work of high achievement. It refreshes Pound
studies in a new and
exciting way. Pound once said that he wrote the way he did "so that the best
minds would be
interested" -- and here are fourteen of them, giving lucid evidence of his
genius. — Guy Davenport
Reed Way Dasenbrock
An impressive body of new criticism on Pound and China... a strong, coherent
collection. — The University of New Mexico
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