Book contents
- The New Ezra Pound Studies
- Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
- The New Ezra Pound Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Key to Abbreviations
- Editor’s Introduction
- Part I Pound’s Texts
- Part II Ezra Pound and Asia
- Chapter 8 Pound’s Representation of the Chinese Frontiers
- Chapter 9 ‘A Treasure Like Nothing We Have in the Occident’
- Chapter 10 Ezra Pound and Chinese Poetry
- Part III Culture and Politics
- Index
- References
Chapter 8 - Pound’s Representation of the Chinese Frontiers
From the War Zone to the Green World
from Part II - Ezra Pound and Asia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 October 2019
Edited by
Book contents
- The New Ezra Pound Studies
- Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
- The New Ezra Pound Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Key to Abbreviations
- Editor’s Introduction
- Part I Pound’s Texts
- Part II Ezra Pound and Asia
- Chapter 8 Pound’s Representation of the Chinese Frontiers
- Chapter 9 ‘A Treasure Like Nothing We Have in the Occident’
- Chapter 10 Ezra Pound and Chinese Poetry
- Part III Culture and Politics
- Index
- References
Summary
In his London years, Pound had ambivalent feelings about the marginal status of the country of his origin, the United States. On the one hand, he had a strong desire to position himself in the centre of Western civilization; on the other hand, he could not help being conscious of his origin in the margin – the frontier – of that civilization. For example, at the beginning of ‘What I Feel about Walt Whitman,’ published in 1909, he wrote, ‘From this side of Atlantic I am for the first time able to read Whitman, and from the vantage of my education and … my world citizenship’ (SP 145), but in his poem ‘A Pact’, published in 1916, he addressed to his imaginary Whitman, ‘We have one sap and one root – / Let there be commerce between us’ (PT 269).
Keywords
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The New Ezra Pound Studies , pp. 127 - 140Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
References
Works Cited
Zhi, Chen, ‘From Exclusive Xia to Inclusive Zhu-Xia: The Conceptualisation of Chinese Identity in Early China’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 14.3 (2004), 185–205.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Couvreur, Séraphin, trans., Chou King: Texte chinois avec une double traduction en Français et en Latin des annotations et un vocabulaire par S. Courvreur S. J. (Ho kien Fou: Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique, 1897).Google Scholar
De Mailla, Joseph de Moyriac, Anne Marie, L’Histoire générale de la chine, ou annales de cet empire, traduites du Tong-Kien-Kang-Mou, par Joseph-Anne Marie de Moyriac de Mailla Jesuite François, 13 vols. (Paris: D. Pierres, 1777–85).Google Scholar
Di Cosmo, Nicola, Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Northern Power in East Asian History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).Google Scholar
Fairbank, John K., ed., The Chinese World Order: Traditional China’s Foreign Relations (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Junping, Liu and Huang, Deyuan, ‘The Evolution of Tianxia Cosmology and Its Philosophical Implications’, Frontiers of Philosophy in China 1.4 (2006), 517–38.Google Scholar
Murao, Susumu, ‘“Tokuni issho wo mōkete”: Kesseki-chin sōheikan Chin Mao no sōshū to Nagasaki, Kōshū’ [‘Establishing a Special Spot: A Memorial from the Brigadier General Chen Mao and the Nagasaki-Guangzhou Connection’], Chūgoku bunka kenkyū [Chinese Cultural Research (Tenri University)] 29 (2012), 3–4.Google Scholar
Miyoko, Nakano, Henkyō no fūkei: Nihon to Chūgoku no kokkyo ishiki [The Frontier Landscape: The Border Consciousness in Japan and China] (Sapporo: Hokkaido University Press, 1979).Google Scholar
Nolde, John J., Blossoms from the East: The China Cantos of Ezra Pound (Orono, ME: National Poetry Foundation / University of Maine, 1983).Google Scholar
Pound, Ezra,Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, ed. Eliot, T. S. (New York: New Directions, 1968).Google Scholar
Pound, Ezra,Poems and Translations, ed. Sieburth, Richard (New York: Library of America, 2003).Google Scholar
Pound, Ezra,Selected Letters of Ezra Pound 1907–1941, ed. Paige, D. D. (New York: New Directions, 1950).Google Scholar
Pound, Ezra,Selected Prose 1909–1965, ed. Cookson, William (New York: New Directions, 1973).Google Scholar
Rhoads, Edward J. M., Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861–1928 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000).Google Scholar
Skaff, Jonathan Karam, Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors: Culture, Power, and Connections, 580–800 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tackett, Nicolas, ‘The Great Wall and Conceptualizations of the Border under the Northern Song’, Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 38 (2008): 99–138.Google Scholar
Terrell, Carroll F., A Companion to the Cantos of Ezra Pound (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993).Google Scholar
Wallace, Emily Mitchell, ‘“Why Not Spirits?” – “The Universe Is Alive”: Ezra Pound, Joseph Rock, the Na Khi, and Plotinus’, in Ezra Pound and China, ed. Qian, Zhaoming, 213–77 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003).Google Scholar