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...Lucas Klein Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel Quel , by Hayot Eric , Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2004 . 220 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 Translating the Dreamers of China Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel Quel by Eric Hayot Ann Arbor...

... Williams Nearly ten years ago, in the introduction to his seminal study Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel Quel, Eric Hayot noted—with some skepti- cism—the ongoing, institutional success of East/West comparativism in literary studies. “Pound and China” had become its own cottage industry, Hayot...

... sessed all the advantages that Pound associated with China—a rich sculptural tradition, an ideogramic language, a philosopher-poet whose maxims provided a basis for practical morality—and throughout the early versions of the first three cantos, the ancient realm is accorded the same...

...Figure 2 “Pailou fuwen [‘Archway of Good Fortunes’] on Legation Street, Peking, 1900.” Traditional arch in Beijing. University of Bristol—Historical Photographs of China reference number: Ca01-106. https://hpcbristol.net/visual/Ca01-106 . ...

...- kano Glenn, and Teresa L. Amott and Julie A. Matthaei. Kingston’s China Men, published in 1980, drew upon some of the same studies that Takaki and Chan cite, but the historians have given since us much more than was available when Kingston threw her “laws” chronology into her second...

... about a future world- order. The most interesting of these thought-experiments involved speculation about an alternative global order based on Chinese cultural dominance—a “China-centric” future. Among the most ambitious and provocative of the China-centric models of globalization...

... historical moment” and recognized that, in a time of wars, authoritarian government, and political polarization, this engagement might involve sympathy and support for particular causes (87). Kohlmann argues that Empson’s time in China and Japan was crucial in developing his ideas and anxieties about...

... the current night watcher’s position he greets him this way: “All quiet china?—bugger all to report?—kipping mate?—christ, mate—you’ll ’ave ’em all over” ( Jones 2003 : 55). The multitude of voices comes together to convey an experience that unites them. Dilworth explains that the main motif of the poem...

... Committee on Un-American Activities [HCUA] hearing in 1953. Recounting his visits to Moscow, Soviet Central Asia, China, and Japan, as well as his experience with the International Brigades as a war correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American , I Wonder as I Wander curiously correlates Hughes’s leftist...

... us to see the transformative power of Stevens’s creative mind as well as better appreciate these poems. Much of Qian’s critical strength derives from his firm grounding in the intellectual traditions of America and China. Besides a profound un­ derstanding of modern American poetry, Qian’s...

... unparalleled, even in the golden age of eugenics that blithely engaged in the dreams of social and racial purification. The story describes the bacteriological war of extinction unleashed by the Western powers against China. Alarmed by China’s population explo­ sion, the West embarks on an explicitly...

... of his project, Barbour moves into the nine chapters of his book. These chapters are mostly organized around Buddhist lineage and locale: the Mahayana, especially the Zen/Chan of Japan and China; the Vajrayana of Tibet and Tibetan exiles in India, Nepal, and Bhutan; and the Theravada of Sri Lanka, Burma...

... Bois: the Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963 (2000) pays scant attention to the final years of Du Bois’s life, when he traveled to the Soviet Union and China, joined the Communist Party, and emigrated to Ghana with Shirley Graham. One of the few studies that examines this period...

... of revolutionary discourse. Beginning with Grove’s reprint of Edgar Snow’s Red Star over China in 1961 and moving through its translation of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks to its publication of The Autobiogra- phy of Malcolm X, Glass skillfully distills Grove’s role...

... marries. She is a Prohibitionist, antagonistic about intimacy, and intent on sojourning in China to care for her ill sister, a missionary worker. Cather challenges gender-based norms by depicting “Enid as the more dominant or traditionally masculine part- ner in the marriage and Claude as the more...

... of The Voyage Out Some New Evi­ dence.” 42.3 (1996): 309-21 Hawkes, John. See Saltzman Hawthorne, Mark D. “The Alexandria Quartet The Homosexual as Teacher/ Guide.” 44.3 (1998): 328-48 Hayot, Eric. “Critical Dreams: Orientalism, Modernism, and the Meaning of Pound’s China...

... in this manner. Their respective narratives of migration from, to, and through Russia, the Philippines, China, the Do- minican Republic, and Poland keep the question of national identity and ethnic solidarity in full view; they all draw freely on generalizations about group identity and extract comic...

... necessarily wrong with Suzuki’s ideas nor that Zen as we know it is inauthentic as compared to some supposedly more authentic traditional form. As the thirteenth-century Zen philosopher Dōgen, who traveled extensively in China in order to reroute his philosophical mind away from the confines of the Japanese...

... to twenty-first-century detective fiction—Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games (2007), and China Miéville’s The City and the City (2009)—arguing that it replaces the uncertainty championed in postmodern anti-detective fiction—Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying...