Friday, August 8, 2008

Sin, jih, jih sin (Day by day make it new.) Olympic Pound?

I have being research-ching into some Chinese poetry and culture, mostly through the lens of Ezra Pound via Dr. Robert Anton Wilson, over the last 5 years.

Pound seemed interested in SPORTING ECONOMICS. And he invented Chinese poetry for the western world. During the Beijing Oilympics 2008 i will be returning to Ezra Pound often.

Confucious keeps getting quoted on BBC coverage of the Olympics!


As for message/ there is a straight tradition. Kung, Mencius, Dante, Agassiz.
And that shd/ be stressed sometime.
The Answers are all in the Four Books/
BUT the barbarians need the ODES. --Ezra Pound to Achilles Fang, 4th Feb 1953.


Confucius or K'UNG Fu-TZU (Kong Fuzi) (551-479). Chinese philosopher. Unsuccessful in his political career, he spent his late years editing classics and teaching disciples from all parts of China. Confucian thought appealed to Ezra Pound as humanist discourse. He translated into English the first three of the Confucian Four Books: Da xue as Ta HIO (1928) and The Great Digest (1947); Zhong yong as The Unwobbling Pivot (1947); and Lun yu as Confucian Analects (1951). Confuciansim plays an important role in The Cantos. EP's Confucianism is treated in Mary Paterson Cheadle's Ezra Pound's Confucian Translations (1997) and Feng Lan's Ezra Pound and Confucianism (2005).

FENOLLOSA, ERNEST (1853-1908). American orientalist. After a tewlve-year sojourn in Japan he became the curator of oriental art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1890-7). His Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art was published posthumously in London in 1912. In 1913 his widow Mary Fenollosa entrusted to EP his notes and manuscripts, which yielded Cathay (1915), "Non" or Accomplishment (1917), and "The Chinese Written Character as a medium for Poetry" (1919).

King Wen (11th Century). Father to China's third dynasty Zhou. After capture and imprisonment, he continued to fight the Shang, a dynasty eventually overthrown in the hands of his son King Wu. As one of Confucius' ideal model rulers, he is listed in Canto 53. ----Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends, Edited and Annotated by Zhaoming Qian. Oxford University Press 2008. Page 230.


Sin, jih, jih sin [Day by day make it new]

1 comment:

Steve Fly Agaric said...

estimates say 4 BILLION people are watching the Olympic Games.