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An investigation into the reception of Chinese and China into English Cross- cultural Transfers: the 85 Project The 85 project is a multi- media poetic investigation into the reception of the Chinese Language and culture into English. The operation involves several transfers, from the original Chinese text, into a visual poem on Chinese xuan paper, to a videotaped reading. In the struggle to assemble words and phrases, readers of these poems enact the strange experience of speaking another culture, even as they unlock the materiality of language. The 85 project was awarded a three- year SSHRC grant in 2009.