The Golden Year of Fan Cheng-Ta: A Chinese Rural Sequence Rendered into English Verse

Edited and translated by Gerald Bullett, With contributions by Tsui Chi

ISBN 10: 1107679230 / ISBN 13: 9781107679238

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2011

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44 pages. 7.70x4.90x0.40 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Golden Year of Fan Cheng-Ta: A Chinese Rural Sequence Rendered into English Verse
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107679230
• ISBN 13: 9781107679238
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.07 kilograms

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Synopsis

Eight centuries divide us from Fan Cheng-ta, but across this gap of time his voice may still be heard - suave, familiar, peaceable - in a cycle of small poems which, reflecting the Chinese rural year, seem as fresh today as when they first came from his brush. The task of rendering the quality of Chinese poetry into English is temptingly difficult; and success in such an enterprise is rare and rewarding. How it came to be attempted by an English poet with the help of a Chinese scholar is told briefly in Mr Bullett's preface. The current edition is a re-issue of Mr Bullett's 1946 text.

Book Description

Eight centuries divide us from Fan Cheng-ta, but his voice may still be heard in a cycle of small poems which, reflecting the Chinese rural year, seem as fresh today as when they first came from his brush. The current edition is a re-issue of Mr Bullett's 1946 text.