Xi Chuan 西川
Xi Chuan (pen-name of Liu Jun) was born in Jiangsu province in 1963 but grew up in Beijing, where he still lives. One of contemporary China’s most celebrated poets, having won the Lu Xun Prize for Literature (2001) and the Zhuang Zhongwen Prize (2003), he is also one of its most hyphenated littérateurs – teacher-essayist-translator-editor-poet – and has been described by American writer Eliot Weinberger as a “polymath, equally at home discussing the latest American poetry or Shang Dynasty numismatics.” A graduate of the English dept. of Peking University, where his thesis was on Ezra Pound’s Chinese translations, he is currently employed at the Central Academy for Fine Arts in Beijing, where he was hired as an English instructor, then taught Western literature in Chinese translation, and now teaches pre-modern Chinese literature. He has taught at New York University (2007) and University of Victoria (2009), and is currently translating the work of Gary Snyder into Chinese.
The Body and History, I11 Fortune H 00325, Looking at the Mural in the Ruicheng Temple of Eternal Joy, Dragon, tr. Lucas Klein; Pathlight: New Chinese Writing 1 (2011)
Original Works
Poem (87)
- Niao (鸟)
- Tiyan (体验)
- Zai He de Nayibian (在河的那一边)
- Wo Juzhu de Chengshi (我居住的城市)
- Qi Feng (起风)
- Shan Zhong (山中)
- Bai Shu (柏树)
- Yi Shi (佚事)
- Ba Yangquan Gan xia Dahai (把羊群赶下大海)
- Qiutian (秋天)
- Yige Ren Laole (一个人老了)
- Xiguangzhong de Bianfu (夕光中的蝙蝠)
- Muse (暮色)
- Huanghun Sanzhang (黄昏三章)
- Ye Niao (夜鸟)
- Huisheng (回声)
- Ting Dian (停电)
- Yueliang (月亮)
- Xie zai Sanshi Sui (写在三十岁)
- Guan Ruicheng Yonglegong Bihua (观芮城永乐宫壁画)
- Ci Ke (此刻)
- Wuye de Gangqinqu (午夜的钢琴曲)
- Yuanfang (远方)
- Hui'da Qimingxing (45 Duanzhang) (回答启明星 (45 断章 ))
- Faxian (发现)
- Yiyuan (医院)
- Chong Du Bo'erhesi Shige (重读博尔赫斯诗歌)
- Shu yu Mao (鼠与猫)
- Jielü (戒律)
- WuguanJinyao de Ge (无关紧要之歌)
- Mouren (某人)
- Pingyuan (平原)
- Linju (邻居)
- Wenzi Zhi (蚊子志)
- Sixiang Lianxi (思想练习)
- Fanchang (反常)
- Wo Cangzhe Wo de Weiba (我藏着我的尾巴)
- Xiao Lao'er (小老儿)
- Nanjiang Biji (南疆笔记)
- Pifu Song (皮肤颂)
- Mayi jie (蚂蚁劫)
- Lianyin Yu (连阴雨)
- Qiangjiao zhi Ge (墙角之歌)
- Zhijing (致敬)
- Jushou (巨兽)
- Zhenyan (箴言)
- Duyao (毒药)
- Chengshi (城市)
- Zaochen (早晨)
- Eyun C 00024 (厄运 C 00024)
- Eyun H 00325 (厄运 H 00325)
- Eyun O 09734 (厄运 O 09734)
- Eyun U 20000 (厄运 U 20000)
- Guanyu He'an Fanjian Li de Jia Yinguo Zhen Ouran (关于黑暗房间里的假因果真偶然)
- Guanyu Wo de Wuyiyi de Shenghuo (关于我的无意义的生活)
- Geren de Tiantang (个人的天堂)
- Shouren (熟人)
- Qi Wang (棋王)
- Banlü (伴侣)
- Wo Nainai (我奶奶)
- Nainai (奶奶)
- Gao Ren (高人)
- Peiling (佩玲)
- Xixia Xiaozhen (西峡小镇)
- Tian Yi Hei (天一黑)
- Ye Xing (夜行)
- Da Tie (打铁)
- Zenme Yi Huishi (怎么一回事)
- Lao Jie Ling (老界岭)
- Ye Zhu (野猪)
- Huang Mao (黄毛)
- Xiyue (喜悦)
- Zhuozi Bandeng (桌子板凳)
- Shangtui Buchu Sandaia (上推不出三代呵)
- Yue Chu Dongshan (月出东山)
- Yige Xiezi de Ren (一个写字的人)
- Shahai Gujuan Luqulu Wenshu Canju. Yue Jin Dai (《沙海古卷》录佉卢文书残句。约晋代)
- Liuchao Guimei (六朝鬼魅)
- Tang Chao Suo Meiyoude (唐朝所没有的)
- Youguan Daqin Jingjiao Liuxing (有关《大秦景教流行中国碑颂》)
- Nanzhaoguo Fanwen Zhuan (南诏国梵文砖)
- Ti Wang Ximeng Qinglü Shanshui Changjuan Qianli Jiangshan Tu (题王希孟青绿山水长卷《千里江山图》)
- Lieying, Tian'e yu Zhenzhu (猎鹰、天鹅与珍珠)
- Zhuochi Hasa'er Wang Fengdi (拙赤.哈撒尔王封地)
- Tixiang yu Lishi (体相与历史)
- Long (龙)
- Panjiayuan Jiuhuo Shichang Xuanxilu (潘家园旧货市场玄思录)
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