{"product_id":"chinese-whispers-by-professor-yunte-huang-9780226822648","title":"Chinese Whispers","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChinese Whispers\u003c\/em\u003e examines multiple contact zones between the Anglophone and Sinophone worlds, investigating how poetry both enables and complicates the transpacific production of meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this new book, the noted critic and best-selling author Yunte Huang explores the dynamics of poetry and poetics in the age of globalization, particularly questions of translatability, universality, and risk in the transpacific context. \u003cem\u003eChinese Whispers\u003c\/em\u003e refers to an American children’s game dating to the years of the Cold War, a period in which everything Chinese, or even Chinese sounding, was suspect. Taking up various manifestations of the phrase in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Huang investigates how poetry, always to a significant degree untranslatable, complicates the transpacific production of meanings and values.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book opens with the efforts of I. A. Richards, arguably the founder of Anglo-American academic literary criticism, to promote Basic English in China in the early twentieth century. It culminates by resituating Ernest Fenollosa’s famous essay “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry,” exploring the ways in which Chinese has historically enriched but also entrapped the Western conception of language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462704021740,"sku":"9780226822648","price":188.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226822648-chinese-whispers.jpg?v=1775021522","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/chinese-whispers-by-professor-yunte-huang-9780226822648","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}