{"id":3665,"date":"2017-04-05T10:14:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T02:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3665"},"modified":"2017-04-23T15:41:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T07:41:25","slug":"victor-mair-on-burton-watson-1925-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3665","title":{"rendered":"Victor Mair on Burton Watson (1925 \u2013 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of Burton Watson’s passing, <\/span>I am collecting statements and memories from friends and fans, to be posted as they come in. The following remembrance is from Victor Mair, professor of Chinese at University of Pennsylvania:<\/em><\/p>\n

Sometime around the mid-70s, I had the great, good fortune to be invited to a dinner at the home of my mentor, Patrick Hanan. Also in attendance that evening were James Hightower and Burton Watson.\u00a0I distinctly recall, already at that time, my impression of Watson being a venerable scholar of enormous accomplishments.\u00a0Yet think of all that he has accomplished since that time four decades ago!<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite his stature as a preeminent translator, Burton displayed no pretensions whatsoever.\u00a0He put me completely at my ease.\u00a0We had a pleasant, relaxed conversation about how we both had gotten into the study of Chinese literature and our mutual joy in translating it well.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Contact me if you would like to add your own remembrance.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In honor of Burton Watson’s passing, I am collecting statements and memories from friends and fans, to be posted as they come in. The following remembrance is from Victor Mair, professor of Chinese at University of Pennsylvania: Sometime around the … 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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1774],"tags":[436,1780,1779,454],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-X7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3720,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3720","url_meta":{"origin":3665,"position":0},"title":"Victor Mair again on Burton Watson (1925 \u2013 2017)","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"May 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"On his own page at Language Log, Victor Mair has added to his earlier remembrance of Burton Watson: Many of Watson's works appeared under the under the imprint of Columbia University Press (CUP), and I have also had a long association with CUP. 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