{"id":586,"date":"2023-05-24T13:08:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T20:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/transpacific-studies\/?page_id=586"},"modified":"2023-05-31T12:42:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T19:42:00","slug":"wing-tek-lum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/wing-tek-lum\/","title":{"rendered":"Wing Tek Lum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/past-events\/\">&lt; Back to Events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n  \n\n    \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--stacking-cards \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--stacking-cards\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n    \n            <div class=\"cards-container\">\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          April 30th, 2013 &#8211; A poetry reading by Wing Tek Lum\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Poet Wing Tek Lum will be reading from his book, The Nanjing Massacre. Wing Tek Lum\u02bcs poems capture all perspectives of this 1937 tragedy\u2014from the weary, casually cruel Japanese soldiers to the uncomprehending child victims, and from the desperate, helpless parents and the brutalized \u201ccomfort women\u201d to the bloodless yet vicious bureaucrats of death. Drawing on published histories, memoirs, photographic collections, and oral histories, Lum composes testimony after testimony for the silenced\u2014poetic memorials that also provide \u201csome measure of revenge\u201d against the victors. At key moments, he also broadens the frame of reference, linking the crimes in China to the atrocities committed since then at different times, on different continents. Massacres, he suggests, bear a family resemblance\u2014the human family. But The Nanjing Massacre is much more than a chamber of horrors. Lum\u02bcs spare and meticulous verse offers up vivid, memorable, and even beautiful images, and many of the poems are mini-narratives, suspenseful and compelling. The result is a gallery of disturbing portraits that nevertheless move us through their artistry and truth.<\/p>\n<p>Wing Tek Lum is a Honolulu businessman and poet. His first collection of poetry, Expounding the Doubtful Points, was published by Bamboo Ridge Press in 1987. With Makoto Ooka, Joseph Stanton, and Jean Yamasaki Toyama, he participated in a collaborative work of linked verse, which was published as &#8220;What the Kite Thinks&#8221; by Summer Session, University of Hawai\u02bbi at Manoa, in 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/188\/2023\/05\/wing_tek.jpg\"\n                    sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Wing tek lum photo\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n        <\/div>\n    \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-586","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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