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Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends: Stories in Letters
No literary figure of the past century is comparable to Ezra Pound in the scope and depth of his exchange with China. In this book 162 previously unpublished letters between Pound and nine Chinese intellectuals, accompanied by introductions and notes, make available for the first time the forgotten stories of Pound and his Chinese friends.
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Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends: Stories in Letters
No literary figure of the past century is comparable to Ezra Pound in the scope and depth of his exchange with China. In this book 162 previously unpublished letters between Pound and nine Chinese intellectuals, accompanied by introductions and notes, make available for the first time the forgotten stories of Pound and his Chinese friends.
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Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends: Stories in Letters

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No literary figure of the past century is comparable to Ezra Pound in the scope and depth of his exchange with China. In this book 162 previously unpublished letters between Pound and nine Chinese intellectuals, accompanied by introductions and notes, make available for the first time the forgotten stories of Pound and his Chinese friends.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780191608131
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 02/21/2008
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 22 MB
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About the Author

As University Research Professor of English at the University of New Orleans, Zhaoming Qian's teaching and research areas focus on East/West comparative poetics, Orientalism, transpacific interculturality, and interdisciplinary Modernism. Qian's books include Orientalism and Modernism: The Legacy of China in Pound and Williams (1995), The Modernist Response to Chinese Art: Pound, Moore, Stevens (2003), and Ezra Pound and China (2003). His research has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and Yale University.

Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsIntroductionNotes on the Text1. F. T. Sung's China Plan for Pound: "China is interesting, VERY"2. Miss Tseng and the Seven Lakes Canto: "Descendant of Kung and Thseng-Tsu"3. Yang as Pound's Opponent and Collaborator: "To sacrifice to a spirit not one's own is flattery"4. Achilles Fang and Pound's Bilingual Confucius: "All answers are in the FOUR BOOKS"5. Pound as Miss Jung's Dissertation Adviser: "One's opinions change"6. Between Pound and Carsun Chang: "Confucianism as Confucius had it"William McNaughton's Memoir: What Pound and Carsun Chang Talked about at St. Elizabeths7. Achilles Fang and Pound's Classic Anthology:"The barbarians need the ODES"8. Pound's Discovery of a Seventh-century B.C. Economist: "Chao ought not to be wasted"9. From Poetry to Politics: "Wang's middle name not in Mathews"10. P. H. Fang and the Naxi Rites in The Cantos: "I have found your Muen BPo & KA MA gyu"Appendix: Ezra Pound's Typescript for "Preliminary Survey"GlossaryWorks, Libraries, and Collections Cited
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