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Matt Turner

Matt Turner's writings can be found in Seedings, Los Angeles Review of Books China Channel, and Bookforum. He has translated or co-translated Lu Xun, Chan Chi Tak, Yan Jun and Hu Jiujiu, and is prose editor for the March 2018 issue of Cha. He lives in New York City.

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A Philosopher’s Journey to the Real

Avatar photo by Matt Turner April 29, 2018April 27, 2018

In Journey to the Land of the Real we get a glimpse of the utter foreignness that Victor Segalen experienced in China over a century ago.

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A Dystopian Fairy Tale Reflects Challenges of the Present

Avatar photo by Matt Turner April 8, 2018April 8, 2018

Despite the serious environmental and political challenges presented in The Emissary, Yoko Tawada suggests that another path exists.

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An Enigmatic Literary Icon of Modern China

Avatar photo by Matt Turner January 7, 2018January 7, 2018

Although Lu Xun eventually cast his lot with the communist revolutionaries, he took a dim view of literature that attempted to recover a national identity or culture.

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The Past and Future of China’s Socialist Literature

Avatar photo by Matt Turner November 12, 2017November 10, 2017

The story Nicolai Volland tells will surprise those who believe communist China was closed to the world, and anyone who thinks communist literature is dull or irrelevant.

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A Poem of Shame: In the Words of China’s Workers

Avatar photo by Matt Turner April 22, 2017April 24, 2017

Iron Moon: An Anthology of Chinese Worker Poetry, edited by Qin Xiaoyu and translated by Eleanor Goodman, collects work by Xu Lizhi and 30 other worker poets.

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Poems About Everything: Bénédicte Vilgrain’s A Tibetan Grammar

Avatar photo by Matt Turner December 11, 2016December 12, 2016

Whatever her own commitments to the Tibetan language or Buddhism, Bénédicte Vilgrain utilizes their historical and philosophical aspects on behalf of her own work, and on behalf of poetry writ large.

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Etel Adnan: Philosophy at Night

Avatar photo by Matt Turner October 15, 2016October 15, 2016

Lebanese-American artist, philosopher, and poet Etel Adnan’s recent publication, Night, is in equal measure a series of meditations on intersubjectivity and spirituality, and a dialogue between prose poetry and short verse.

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Cosmic Wind: Yoshimasu Gozo’s ‘Alice Iris Red Horse’

Avatar photo by Matt Turner August 20, 2016August 19, 2016

In 2003 I received an invitation to attend a reading by the poet Yoshimasu Gozo, someone I had never heard of. I asked around, and was told that Gozo was an avant-garde poet who read in a bygone oracular style.

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Resisting Totality: The Paintings of Zhu Jinshi

Avatar photo by Matt Turner January 30, 2016February 11, 2016

A precocious youth forced to work in a factory during the Cultural Revolution, the painter Zhu Jinshi afterwards joined the seminal new art group the Stars (星星), producing works that dabbled in the imported medium of abstraction.

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