Chapter 5 • Chinese Whispers: The Future of Meaning in the Age of Information

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of figures xi
4. Introduction • Serve the People, Read Them Verse: A Transpacific Journey in Poetics and Politics 1
5. Chapter 1 • Through the Looking Glass: Basic English, Chinglish, and Translocal Dialect 16
6. Chapter 2 • Listening to Marco Polo: Sound, Money, and Vernacular Imagination 45
7. Chapter 3 • Words Made in China: Ezra Pound as a Translational Poet 66
8. Chapter 4 • Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Too Big to Fail: Wallace Stevens, John Cage, and the Poetics of Risk 81
9. Chapter 5 • Chinese Whispers: The Future of Meaning in the Age of Information 110
10. Coda The Story of Mr. Shi Eating Lions 134
11. Acknowledgments 141
12. Notes 143
13. Bibliography 159
14. Index 171