Selected Poems by Robert Burns in Chinese Translation - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748641114 ISBN 13: 9780748641116

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2010

Synopsis

The Confucius Institute for Scotland in the University of Edinburgh presents this beautiful bilingual Chinese/Scottish Collector's Edition of a selection of poems by Robert Burns.The volume contains eleven well-known Burns poems in English, including 'I love my Jean', 'My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose' and 'John Anderson, My Jo', together with facing-page Chinese translations. The translations, from the 1920s, are by Su Manshu, Wu Fangji, and Liu Pu and finely capture the lyric quality of Burns's poems. Each poem is introduced by an illustration page of Chinese calligraphy by Mr Chi Zhang, MSC BA, Chinese Calligraphy/Brush Painting artist at the University of Edinburgh.

About this title

About the Author:

Natascha Gentz is Head of Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0748641114
• ISBN 13: 9780748641116
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 48
• Editor: Gentz Natascha