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1、原文TheChineseconnection:language,poetry,philosophyByPeterWilson(AdoptedfromAPrefacetoEzraPound,PekingUniversityPress,2005.p99~105)Pound’sexposuretothingsChinese,ratherthananunlikelyoccurrencebroughtaboutbychance,wasmoreorlessinevitableintheclimateoffashionableorientalisminpre-war
2、London.ThenineteenthcenturyhadbeenaperiodofwesternimperialistinterventionandexploitationinChina,culminatinginthebrutalsuppressionoftheBoxerrebellionin1900.Thisquasi-colonialismhadalsoresultedintheappropriationofChineseculturalartifactsandtheirimitationsinthemuseumsandsalonsofthe
3、west.Orientaliconographyanditsliteraryinterpretationwerepartofaconsciouslyacknowledgedchinoiserie.Buttherewasalsogenuineandmorescholarlysinology,exemplifiedbyGiles’sHistoryofChineseLiteratureof1901.ThistextwasintroducedtoPoundbyAllenUpward,traveler,colonialdiplomatandanthropolog
4、ist,whosework,judgingbythenumerousreferencestoitinPound’sletters,clearlyimpressedhim,UpwardwasalsoresponsibleforintroducingPoundtoConfuciusandMenciusinFrenchtranslations.AswelltherewereUpward’s‘Chinese’poems,entitled‘ScentedLeaverfromaChineseJar’,whichPoundpromotedinPoetryin1913
5、.InalettertoHarrietMonroeregardingtheirpublicationhenotes:’Upwardisaveryinterestingchap.Hesays,bytheway,thattheChinesestuffisnotaparaphrase,butthathemadeitupoutofhishead,usingacertainamountofChinesereminiscence.Ithinkweshouldinsertanotetothateffect,astheoneinthecurrentnumberismi
6、sleading’(SL.,p.23).ExtractsfromUpward’sworkalsoappearedinthefirstimagistanthology,DesImagists,in1914.Hispoemsareshortprose-likeanecdotesofwhichthefollowingisatypicalexample:ThesailorboywholeantoverthesideoftheJunkofManyPearls,andcombedthegreentressesoftheseawithhisivoryfingers,
7、believingthatheheardthevoiceofamermaid;casthisbodydownbetweenthewaves.(Jones(ed.),1972,p.98)TherewasalwaysadangerthatsuchstuffwouldbereadasatranslationfromtheChinese,somethingPoundwasclearlyawareofinhislettertoMonroe.InthisclimateoforientalismitwouldhavebeeneasyforPoundtoproduce
8、hisownsuperiorbrandofchinoiserie.However,inanes