Name: Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends By Zhaoming Qian (Y. C. Tang Chair Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Zhejiang University, China and University Research Professor of English, University of New Orleans)
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Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends: Stories in Letters by Zhaoming Qian (Y. C. Tang Chair Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Zhejiang University, China and University Research Professor of English, University of New Orleans)

No literary figure of the past century - in America or perhaps in any other Western country - is comparable to Ezra Pound in the scope and depth of his exchange with China. To this day, scholars and students still find it puzzling that this influential poet spent a lifetime incorporating Chinese language, literature, history, and philosophy into Anglo-American modernism. How well did Pound know Chinese? Was he guided exclusively by eighteenth to nineteenth-century orientalists in his various Chinese projects? Did he seek guidance from Chinese peers? Those who have written about Pound and China have failed to address this fundamental question. No one could do so just a few years ago when the letters Pound wrote to his Chinese friends were sealed or had not been found. This book brings together 162 revealing letters between Pound and nine Chinese intellectuals, eighty-five of them newly opened up and none previously printed. Accompanied by editorial introductions and notes, these selected letters make available for the first time the forgotten stories of Pound and his Chinese friends. They illuminate a dimension in Pound's career that has been neglected: his dynamic interaction with people from China over a span of forty-five years from 1914 until 1959. This selection will also be a documentary record of a leading modernist's unparalleled efforts to pursue what he saw as the best of China, including both his stumbles and his triumphs.

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Zhaoming Qian has brought to the foreground not ony an essential source for Pound's oriental thinking but a necessary chapter in cross-cultural endeacour. * Ian F. A. Bell, Modern Language Review *
162 letters were tracked down over 15 years by Professor Zhaoming Qian of the University of New Orleans. "For a long time people were wary of writing about Pound because of his fascist beliefs. From these letters we can see he realised his mistakes." * Andrew Johnson, The Independent *
A timely addition to any library already invested in Pound's correspondence. * Jordan Davis, Times Literary Supplement *
Qian's book helps to deliver new and subtler understandings of Pound's postwar writings by showing us quite how serious were Pound's studies of China and Confucianism * Nick Selby, Times Higher Education *
This is an important collection of mostly unknown letters, expertly presented. Taken together they reveal the depth and the development of Pound's engagement with the Confucian tradition of China, and with its language, beginning in 1914 and intensifying through the following five decades. The book will be welcomed by Pound scholars and students, and more broadly by anyone concerned with cultural exchanges between China and the West. * A. David Moody, author of Ezra Pound: Poet. A Portrait of the Man & His Work *
Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends fills out our understanding of Pound's fascination with China and Japan through original documents. It reveals glimpses of this opinionated, questing man in dialogue with people he respected (not a frequent situation in Pound's correspondence). Chiefly it shows one of the major Modernists in his time of isolation, trying to 'make it new' by engagement with an unfamiliar language and culture. * Haun Saussy, Yale University *

About Zhaoming Qian (Y. C. Tang Chair Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Zhejiang University, China and University Research Professor of English, University of New Orleans)

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.

List of Illustrations ; Introduction ; Notes on the Text ; 1. 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. Elizabeths ; 7. 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" ; Glossary ; Works, Libraries, and Collections Cited

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GOR003462747

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9780199238606

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019923860X

Title

Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends: Stories in Letters by Zhaoming Qian (Y. C. Tang Chair Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Zhejiang University, China and University Research Professor of English, University of New Orleans)

Author

Zhaoming Qian (Y. C. Tang Chair Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Zhejiang University, China and University Research Professor of English, University of New Orleans)

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Hardback

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Oxford University Press

Year published

2008-01-01

Number of pages

272

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Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends Zhaoming Qian (Y. C. Tang Chair Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Zhejiang University, China and University Research Professor of English, University of New Orleans)

Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends by Zhaoming Qian (Y. C. Tang Chair Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Zhejiang University, China and University Research Professor of English, University of New Orleans)

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Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends Summary

Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends: Stories in Letters by Zhaoming Qian (Y. C. Tang Chair Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Zhejiang University, China and University Research Professor of English, University of New Orleans)

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About Zhaoming Qian (Y. C. Tang Chair Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Zhejiang University, China and University Research Professor of English, University of New Orleans)

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