Caspar Chiquet

Yi Sha is back from the 38th Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam, and his latest novel, Zhongguo wangshi 中国往事 is finally published. I’ll post a short review when I’m finished reading. I browsed through the various online editions while writing my master thesis, now that I have it as a paperback, I can finally give it another read, this time more focused.

You can buy the book on Chinese Amazon, if you’re interested, it’s 23.30 plus shipping.

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The red dots represent table nodes. Shame on you, Sina!

The graph was drawn with the great tool HTMLgraph by Aharef.

Soaring towards the finishing line, I passed another milestone in my career as a student of Chinese language and literature today. It seems like no one gets through without having written something at least remotely connected to 白居易之长恨歌 and China’s most dangerous 女祸 in history (this is up to discussion, I count at least a couple of contenders for this title among my acquaintances). That’s what I did, and I reviewed five of the most common theories about the aim and motivation of 长恨歌. Since many of these theories base their argumentation on 陈鸿之长恨传, I discuss a study by 周相录 which analyzes the different versions of 长恨传 and its impact on the theories about 长恨歌.
It’s boring stuff, but if you read German and want a quick overview of the Chinese discussion about 长恨歌, you may want to give it a read. I’ll upload it within the next few days.

Joyside is playing at Mascotte on May 7th. The concert starts around 10pm. Before that, they show the documentary “Beijing Bubbles” which features Joyside along with 4 other bands. (upcoming.org)

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Ich bin mitten an der Übersetzung von Yi Shas (伊沙) neustem Roman, “Karneval” (狂欢). Der Roman besteht aus vier Teilen, wovon ich im Moment den zweiten Teil, “das 2. Jahr”, übersetze. Die Übersetzung wird Teil meiner Lizentiatsarbeit in Sinologie an der Universität Zürich.