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1984.10.16-12.9

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Gary Snyder travels in the Peoples' Republic of China as part of an American Academy of Arts & Letters delegation for a 4-day writers conference, as guest of the Writers' Union with Toni Morrison, Allen Ginsberg, Harrison Salisbury, William Gass, Francine du Plessix Gray.
The American writers were taken to the most famous tourist destinations : Beijing, the Chinese Acrobat Theatre, the Imperial Palace, a section of the Great Wall. After a week in Beijing, the group went to Xian, to Shanghai, to see the Buddhist temples, the Tang gardens in Suzhou and Han Shan's Cold Mountain.
After the other members of the mission went back to America, Allen Ginsberg stayed in China by himself for some time to have more communication with contemporary Chinese writers and a spiritual dialogue with great ancient Chinese poets. He wen to the universities in Beijing, Shanghai, Baoding and Guiling to read and instruct his own poems and other western poets. In this period he wrote more than ten poems : One morning I took a walk in China, Reading Bai Juyi, Improvisation in Beijing, I love old Whitman so, Black shroud. In these poems Ginsberg depicts his endearment of China and its profound culture. And the poems have been praised as opening a window for western readers to understand China.

Mentioned People (6)

Gass, William Howard  (Fargo, North Dakota 1924-) : Schriftsteller, Professor für Philosophie

Ginsberg, Allen  (Newark, N.J. 1926-1997 New York, N.Y.) : Dichter

Morrison, Toni  (Lorain, Ohio 1931-) : Schriftstellerin, Professorin Robert F. Goheen Chair in the Humanities, Princeton University ; Nobelpreisträgerin

Plessix Gray, Francine du  (Warschau, Polen 1930-) : Amerikanische Schriftstellerin, Adjunct professor, School of Fine Arts, Columbia University

Salisbury, Harrison E.  (Minneapolis, Minn. 1908-1993 Providence, R.I.) : Journalist

Snyder, Gary  (San Francisco, Calif. 1930-) : Schriftsteller, Dichter, Professor of English, University of California Davis
[Reproduction of the texts with the permission by Gary Snyder, January 2013].

Subjects

Literature : Occident : United States of America

Documents (4)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1996 Snyder, Gary. The art of poetry No. 74. Interviewed by Eliot Weinberger. In : The Paris review ; no. 141 (Winter 1996).
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1323/the-art-of-poetry-no-74-gary-snyder.
Publication / Sny3
2 1999 Snyder, Gary. The Gary Snyder reader : prose, poetry, and translations, 1952-1998. (Washington, D.C. : Counterpoint, 1999). Publication / Sny6
  • Source: Snyder, Gary. Passage through India. (San Francisco, Calif. : Grey Fox Press, 1983). [Enthält Eintragungen über China]. (Sny8, Publication)
  • Source: Snyder, Gary. Walls within walls. In : Co-evolution quarterly ; Spring (1983). (Sny11, Publication)
  • Source: Snyder, Gary. Reflections on my translation of the T'ang poet Han-Shan. In : Manoa, Honolulu ; vol. 12, no 1 (2000).
    http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/manoa/v012/12.1snyder.html. (Sny10, Publication)
  • Cited by: Zentralbibliothek Zürich (ZB, Organisation)
3 2010 Sherlock, John. Gary Snyder : a bibliography of works by and about Gary Snyder ; based in part on the Gary Snyder papers and other holdings of the University of California, Davis. 2nd ed., rev. and expanded. (David : University of California, Special Collections Department, 2010).
http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/specol/researchprojects/files/bib-garysnyder-2ed.pdf.
Web / Sny1
4 2012 Min, Yu. Allen Ginsberg and China. In : Theory and practice in language studies ; vol. 2, no 4 (2012).
http://ojs.academypublisher.com/index.php/tpls/article/view/tpls0204850855.
Publication / Gin1