Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2019

Chinese Poetry and Translation

Rights and Wrongs

Edited by: Maghiel Crevel and Lucas Klein

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048542727

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About this book

Stretching from queer-feminist engagement with China’s newest poetry to philological reflection on its oldest, this book brings a wealth of new thinking to the interrelationships between poetry, translation, and China.

Author / Editor information

Crevel Maghiel :

Maghiel van Crevel is professor of Chinese language and literature at Leiden University. A specialist of contemporary poetry, he has published a dozen books in English, Dutch, and Chinese, including scholarly monographs and edited volumes, literary translations, and language textbooks.Klein Lucas :

Lucas Klein is a father, writer, and translator, as well as associate professor in the School of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong. His monograph The Organization of Distance: Poetry, Translation, Chineseness was published by Brill in 2018.

Reviews

"Together the essays in Chinese Poetry and Translation give voice to a wonderful group of poets, scholars, and translators, many of whom wear multiple hats. It is a good introduction to the range of issues – from equivalence to local/national identity – central to studies of poetry in cross-cultural contexts. The main currents and counter-currents weaving across the essays mirror the debates and contentions that have constantly flared up over the translation of poetry into and out of China. Poetry may be a marginalized cultural terrain that (in van Crevel’s words) ‘no one cares about’ in today’s world, but this promises great freedom and agency, and it remains an embodiment of pure spiritual value that for this very reason touches closely on power and politics."
- Wen Jin, East China Normal University, Shanghai, Translation and Literature, 30.3 (2021)

"This is a very rich collection of essays showcasing a range of approaches to the study and practice of Chinese poetry translation. [...] In addition to the valuable research presented in most of the chapters, this book should also be highly useful for teaching about Chinese poetry, and for getting students to think about what it means to translate, or to read in translation."
- Michel Hockx, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (2021)

"The fascinating, diverse essays in this collection shed new light on the complexities of Chinese poetry and translation. They are both entertaining and erudite, a rare combination."
- Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick and University of Glasgow

"Ambitious in scope and delightful to read, this book perceptively traces the dynamic, multi-directional interchange between languages and cultures that allows us to become visible and legible to one another."
- Géraldine Fiss, University of Southern California

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Acknowledgments Open Access Download PDF	7
Introduction Maghiel van Crevel and Lucas Klein Open Access Download PDF	9
Conventions Open Access Download PDF	19
Part One: The Translator’s Take
1 Sitting with Discomfort Jenn Marie Nunes Open Access Download PDF	23
2 Working with Words Eleanor Goodman Open Access Download PDF	45
3 Translating Great Distances Joseph R. Allen Open Access Download PDF	69
4 Purpose and Form Wilt L. Idema Open Access Download PDF	89
Part Two: Theoretics
5 Embodiment in the Translation of Chinese Poetry Nick Admussen Open Access Download PDF	113
6. Translating Theory Jacob Edmond Open Access Download PDF	135
7 Narrativity in Lyric Translation Zhou Min Open Access Download PDF	159
8 Sublimating Sorrow Nicholas Morrow Williams Open Access Download PDF	181
9 Mediation Is Our Authenticity Lucas Klein Open Access Download PDF	201
Part Three: Impact
10 Ecofeminism avant la Lettre Liansu Meng Open Access Download PDF	225
11 Ronald Mar and the Trope of Life Chris Song Open Access Download PDF	249
12 Ya Xian’s Lyrical Montage Tara Coleman Open Access Download PDF	265
13 Celan’s “Deathfugue” in Chinese Joanna Krenz Open Access Download PDF	287
14 Trauma in Translation Rui Kunze Open Access Download PDF	309
15 A Noble Art, and a Tricky Business Maghiel van Crevel Open Access Download PDF	331
Index Open Access Download PDF	351

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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 356
Keywords: Translation; poetry; China

eBook

Published: November 27, 2019
ISBN: 9789048542727