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CHENGDU<\/strong><\/p>\n \nFlying clouds over the Jade Mountains \nGERMAIN DROOGENBROODT<\/strong> \nRemembering Chengdu International Poetry Festival 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n \n***<\/p>\n At the Chengdu poetry festival, the Chinese poets did not read, but shouted their poems; by \u201cChange\u201d the poet refers <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CHENGDU Flying clouds over the Jade Mountains Are like the changes of history \u2014Du Fu Flowers were blooming so gaily, and all around was green peaceful and dreamingly like the pandas in the trees. Poetry echoed in tongues one couldn\u2019t understand. Chinese poems were shouted, announcing The Change? The dance and the show were fascinating. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4172,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions\/4172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAre like the changes of history
\n\u2014Du Fu
\nFlowers were blooming so gaily,
\nand all around was green
\npeaceful and dreamingly
\nlike the pandas in the trees.
\nPoetry echoed in tongues
\none couldn\u2019t understand.
\nChinese poems were shouted,
\nannouncing The Change?
\nThe dance and the show were fascinating.
\nBut the poet remained thoughtful,
\nmeditating and questioning
\nthe future of Time.<\/p>\n
\nTranslation by Stanley Barkan in cooperation with the author<\/em><\/p>\n
\nto the USA, losing its power as world leader, gradually being replaced by the Chinese pushing to replace the US from
\npower. These Modern Times are characterized by emptiness, by protests and demagoguery. The poet, Du Fu, alike,
\nwho lived in times of turmoil, is worried about the future of Humanity.<\/p>\n