{"id":2759,"date":"2014-08-28T09:30:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T01:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2014-08-26T15:43:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T07:43:25","slug":"2759","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2759","title":{"rendered":"Asian Review of Books on Goodman’s Wang Xiaoni"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>The Asian Review of Books <\/a>has published Jennifer Wong’s review of Something Crosses My Mind<\/i> \u6709\u4ec0\u4e48\u5728\u6211\u5fc3\u91cc\u4e00\u8fc7 by Wang Xiaoni \u738b\u5c0f\u59ae, tra<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>nslated by Eleanor Goodman<\/span>. Here’s an excerpt:<\/div>\n
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Goodman\u2019s strength\u00a0as a translator\u00a0lies in her ability to render the Chinese poetic language faithfully and with elegance, adhering to syntax and line breaks, while taking care that the translated verse does not alienate the reader. She has kept true to Wang\u2019s immediate, unaffected voice, and maintained her uncanny, pithy word choice. She also refrains from the temptation to over-translate or gloss over the strangeness of poetic language. A\u00a0fuller annotation of terms might however benefit those readers\u00a0unfamiliar with Chinese rituals, regional life and dialects. The decision to make this book a bilingual edition makes it possible for sinologists and those who are able\u00a0to access both languages to compare and understand how Chinese and English poetic language and form operate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click on the image above for the full review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Asian Review of Books has published Jennifer Wong’s review of Something Crosses My Mind \u6709\u4ec0\u4e48\u5728\u6211\u5fc3\u91cc\u4e00\u8fc7 by Wang Xiaoni \u738b\u5c0f\u59ae, translated by Eleanor Goodman. Here’s an excerpt: Goodman\u2019s strength\u00a0as a translator\u00a0lies in her ability to render the Chinese poetic language … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[388,860,128],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8srwF-2759","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3378,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3378","url_meta":{"origin":2759,"position":0},"title":"Goodman on Wang Xiaoni on New Books in East Asian Studies","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"January 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Carla Nappi interviews Eleanor Goodman about her translation of Something Crosses My Mind by Wang Xiaoni \u738b\u5c0f\u59ae. 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