Translating Chinese Literature - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253319587 ISBN 13: 9780253319586

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1995

Synopsis

There is no greater challenge to a translator than the rendering of Chinese, ancient or modern, into English. In this fascinating volume, world-famous scholar-translators talk about their craft from a variety of points of view, confronting key issues of both general and specific nature and imparting some of their joys and the successes which can be achieved.

The contributors are Cyril Birch, William H. Nienhauser, Jr., David R. Knechtges, Richard B. Mather, Glen Dudbridge, James I. Crump, Jr., Robert Joe Cutter and William G. Crowell, Stephen H. West, John Minford, Dominic Cheung, Joseph S. M. Lau, Victor H. Mair, David D. W. Wang, Michelle Yeh, Eugene Eoyang, Ching-hsi Peng, and John J. Deeney.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

In this fascinating volume, world-famous scholar translators talk about their craft from a variety of perspectives, confronting key issues of both theoretical and practical nature.

About the Author:

EUGENE EOYANG is Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University.

LIN YAO-FU is in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Taiwan University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0253319587
• ISBN 13: 9780253319586
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Eoyang Eugene Chen, Yao-Fu Lin