{"id":20138,"date":"2019-11-10T18:42:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T02:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20138"},"modified":"2019-11-10T18:43:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T02:43:39","slug":"shuang-wu-in-memory-of-zu-wei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20138","title":{"rendered":"Shuang Wu: In memory of Zu-Wei"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: 'lucida Grande', Verdana, 'Microsoft YaHei'; color: #000000;\">Chinese Author: Shuang Wu (Editor, Higher Education Press)\uff1a Translator: King-Kok Cheung (Professor of UCLA)<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sadly gazing at the Mid-autumn moon (Sima Guang)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Missing you my spirit wanes (Wang Zhidao)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Your lineage uneclipsed waxes (Cai Kan)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Your illustrious name shines our way (Li Shunchen)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Translator\u2019s note:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The initial characters of the four Chinese lines are identical to the last four characters in the title: Remembering with sadness Zu-Wei (DWL\u2019s Chinese first name). Unable to duplicate Wu Shuang\u2019s acute wordplay, I merely end the last 3 lines with a \u201cw\u201d word and the last line with \u201cway,\u201d a homonym of \u201cWei.\u201d Thank you, Russ Leong, for tinkering with the poetics.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Author: Shuang Wu (Editor, Higher&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20141,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20138\/revisions\/20141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}