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\"Canyon<\/a>Canaan Morse at World Literature Today<\/a> <\/em>reviews Canyon in the Body <\/em>\u8eab\u4f53\u91cc\u7684\u5ce1\u8c37 by Lan Lan \u84dd\u84dd, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. Here\u2019s how it wraps up:<\/p>\n

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The majority of the translations in this volume are both artistically accomplished and reflective of the source texts. Yet there are too many instances in which the translator steps in front of the author instead of standing beside her. Readers expect good translations to stand independently in their own language, of course; should we not expect them to be co-creative as well?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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

Canaan Morse at World Literature Today reviews Canyon in the Body \u8eab\u4f53\u91cc\u7684\u5ce1\u8c37 by Lan Lan \u84dd\u84dd, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. Here\u2019s how it wraps up: The majority of the translations in this volume are both artistically accomplished and reflective of … 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":[93,228,60],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-Pd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2948,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2948","url_meta":{"origin":3175,"position":0},"title":"Asian Cha reviews Han Dong & Lan Lan","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"January 21, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Lu Jin at Cha reviews A Phone Call from Dalian \u6765\u81ea\u5927\u8fde\u7684\u7535\u8bdd, by Han Dong \u97e9\u4e1c as edited and translated by Nicky Harman, and Canyon in the Body \u8eab\u4f53\u91cc\u7684\u5ce1\u8c37, by Lan Lan \u84dd\u84dd as translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. 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