Ezra Pound and China

Contributors

Contents

• Introduction by ZHAOMING QIAN
• Constructing the Orient: Pound's American Vision by IRA B. NADEL
• Cathay:What Sort of Translation? by BARRY AHEARN
• The Beauties of Mistranslation: On Pound's English after Cathay by CHRISTINE FROULA
• Painting into Poetry: Pound's Seven Lakes Canto by ZHAOMING QIAN
• Pound's Quest for Confucian Ideals: The Chinese History Cantos by HONG SUN
• Ideogram, "Right Naming," and the Authoritarian Streak by PETER MAKIN
• Confucius against Confusion: Ezra Pound and the Catholic Chaplain at Pisa by WENDY STALLARD FLORY
• Confucius Erased: The Missing Ideograms in The Pisan Cantos by RONALD BUSH
• "Enigma" at the Heart of Paradise: Buddhism, Kuanon, and the Feminine Ideogram in The Cantos by BRITTON GILDERSLEEVE
• "Why Not Spirits?"—"The Universe Is Alive": Ezra Pound, Joseph Rock, the Na Khi, and Plotinus by EMILY MITCHELL WALLACE
• Poems by PATRIZIA DE RACHEWILTZ, YANG LIAN, KIM JONG-GIL
• Afterword: Kung Is to Pound As Is Water to Fishes by MARY DE RACHEWILTZ

Zhaoming Qian and Mary de Rachewiltz climbing Taishan, July 1999.

Photo by Patrizia de Rachewiltz