Eighth Post!

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It's one thing if mankind is hunted to extinction by ChatGPT, but I really do object to being executed by Bing.

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Re: Poetry - To the Oak (致橡树) by Shu Ting (舒婷)

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Meme being what it is, I figured I'd end on the one and only feminist poem in the set - hopefully it comes off as a high note. Thanks to all of you for reading along! This has been a fun and rather educational little project for me, and I hope it's been interesting for everyone else as well.

If you're interested in modern Chinese poetry, I'm afraid I don't have any resources to share. If you're interested in classical Chinese poetry, though, and/or the intricacies of translation, I do want to recommend one of my favorite books, 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei. It's a short (52 pages) document where Eliot Weinberger presents nineteen translations of the exact same poem and judges the hell out of each of them. Some professor has helpfully uploaded the full text onto the internet:

> https://www.jonvonkowallis.com/readers/CHIN5910/178-206-Eliot_Weinberger_&_Octavia_Paz-Nineteen_Ways_of_Looking_at_Wang_Wei.pdf