MCLC: Complete Translated Poems of Li Shangyin launched online

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Complete Translated Poems of Li Shangyin launched online
Mr Mark Obama Ndesandjo has translated late Tang Dynasty Li Shangyin's complete poems to share online with those interested in Chinese history and culture.
In his 45 years (813AD – 858AD), Li Shangyin wrote many marvelous poems on diverse topics. His output was perhaps in the thousands, but many poems are lost and a little over 500 remain. The core of his work, his poems, concern the dichotomy between enduring love or friendship and the temporality of all things. All have been translated and interpreted by Mark and are available online starting February. The website is http://atangpoetfromnairobi.com
The project encompasses a book and a website, and the goals are to present, first, the work of the fascinating Tang poet Li Shangyin to a western audience in its entirety and, second, to integrate Mark’s personal observations and meditations on Kenya, China, and America using Li Shangyin as a muse, so to speak.
"I want the general public to know the Chinese wrote great poetry.” Mark says, "And help avoid searching for this great poet’s works in bits and pieces. Furthermore, not being a professional translator, I wanted to post my interpretations as a work in progress that will benefit from other’s input and ideas, including academics. Finally, I think it is important to express personally how Li Shangyin's insights can inspire across three cultures: America, Kenya, and China."
About Mark:
Born in Kenya and a fifteen year resident of Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China, Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo is an accomplished American pianist, writer, artist and businessman. He is Adjunct Professor of Arts and Media at Beijing Normal University and has a BSc. Physics from Brown University, an MSc Physics from Stanford and an EMBA from Emory. He is an HSK L7 (advanced) Mandarin speaker and writer, and an avid brush calligrapher. Mark also runs a company linking investors and projects across Asia, Africa and the United States. In addition to his first book, Nairobi to Shenzhen, he has completed a memoir, An Obama’s Journey, and published 3 piano CDs, The Untimely Ones, Night Moods and his own composition Reflections on William Blake. Mark has been regularly volunteering piano lessons to orphans in and around Shenzhen since 2002. He is Shenzhen’s Volunteer Image Ambassador and China’s Special Olympics Image Ambassador, as appointed by the Chinese government. Mark is also Image Ambassador for the France-China Cultural Forum.  Recently he established the Mark Obama Ndesandjo Foundation Ltd for cultural exchange, whose goal is to bring art to youth and the disadvantaged. For more on Mark and his foundation please visit  www.markobamandesandjo.com.
Posted by Mark Ndesandjo <mndesand at yahoo.com>
by denton.2 at osu.edu on February 7, 2017
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