Yunte Huang, Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, is the author of Shi: A Radical Reading of Chinese Poetry and the translator into Chinese of Ezra Pound's Cantos.

"Yunte Huang has produced a fascinating study of what he calls 'textual travelling,' which is to say, the transformation of poetic texts (in this case Chinese ones) at the hands of American scholars, editors, translators, and especially poets.... This brave and highly original study is sure to raise controversy."-Marjorie Perloff, author of Wittgenstein's Ladder

• Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Ethnographers-Out-There: Percival Lowell, Ernest Fenollosa, and Florence Ayscough 2. Ezra Pound: An Ideographer or Ethnographer? 3. The Intertextual Travel of Amy Lowell 4. The Multifarious Faces of the Chinese Language 5. Maxine Hong Kingston and the Making of an "American" Myth 6. Translation as Ethnography: Problems in American Translations of Contemporary Chinese Poetry Conclusion Bibliography Index

Yunte Huang, Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, is the author of Shi: A Radical Reading of Chinese Poetry and the translator into Chinese of Ezra Pound's Cantos.

"Yunte Huang has produced a fascinating study of what he calls 'textual travelling,' which is to say, the transformation of poetic texts (in this case Chinese ones) at the hands of American scholars, editors, translators, and especially poets.... This brave and highly original study is sure to raise controversy."-Marjorie Perloff, author of Wittgenstein's Ladder

• Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Ethnographers-Out-There: Percival Lowell, Ernest Fenollosa, and Florence Ayscough 2. Ezra Pound: An Ideographer or Ethnographer? 3. The Intertextual Travel of Amy Lowell 4. The Multifarious Faces of the Chinese Language 5. Maxine Hong Kingston and the Making of an "American" Myth 6. Translation as Ethnography: Problems in American Translations of Contemporary Chinese Poetry Conclusion Bibliography Index

Yunte Huang, Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, is the author of Shi: A Radical Reading of Chinese Poetry and the translator into Chinese of Ezra Pound's Cantos.

"Yunte Huang has produced a fascinating study of what he calls 'textual travelling,' which is to say, the transformation of poetic texts (in this case Chinese ones) at the hands of American scholars, editors, translators, and especially poets.... This brave and highly original study is sure to raise controversy."-Marjorie Perloff, author of Wittgenstein's Ladder

• Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Ethnographers-Out-There: Percival Lowell, Ernest Fenollosa, and Florence Ayscough 2. Ezra Pound: An Ideographer or Ethnographer? 3. The Intertextual Travel of Amy Lowell 4. The Multifarious Faces of the Chinese Language 5. Maxine Hong Kingston and the Making of an "American" Myth 6. Translation as Ethnography: Problems in American Translations of Contemporary Chinese Poetry Conclusion Bibliography Index