Chinese Rhyme-Prose; Poems in the Fu Form From the Han and Six Dynasties Periods

Watson, Burton

ISBN 10: 0231035535 / ISBN 13: 9780231035538

Published by Columbia University Press, New York, 1971

About this Item

Octavo in tan boards; 128 pp; 23 cm. Near fine(+); boards smooth and clean; small stamp to corner paste-down endpaper; pages crisp; binding tight. No jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chinese Rhyme-Prose; Poems in the Fu Form From the Han and Six Dynasties Periods
• Publisher: Columbia University Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0231035535
• ISBN 13: 9780231035538
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Printing.
• Condition: Near fine(+)
• Seller catalogs:
  • English
  • Asia

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Synopsis

English, Chinese (translation)

About the Author

Burton Watson (1925 - 2017) was the foremost English-language translator of classical Chinese and Japanese literature. Among his many books are individual translated volumes of the poets Tu Fu, Su Tung-p’o, Han Shan, Lu Yu, Po Chü-yi, Gensei, and Ryōkan; the philosophers Chuang Tzu, Confucius, Mencius, Mo Tzu, Hsün Tzu, and Han Fei Tzu; the historian Ssu-ma Ch’ien; and Buddhist texts such as The Lotus Sutra and The Vimalakirti Sutra. He is the editor and translator of The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry and, with Hiroaki Sato, of a prolific anthology of Japanese poetry, From the Country of Eight Islands. He received the Gold Medal Award presented by the Translation Center at Columbia University in 1979 and the PEN Translation Prize twice, in 1981 and 1995. In 2015, Watson was selected as the recipient of the 2015 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation, one of PEN's most prestigious lifetime achievement awards.

Lucas Klein’s translations include Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems by Xi Chuan, which won the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize from the American Literary Translators Association. He lives in Hong Kong.