{"id":4503,"date":"2019-03-25T20:30:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T12:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4503"},"modified":"2019-03-25T09:09:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T01:09:24","slug":"chinese-translation-of-19-ways-of-looking-at-wang-wei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4503","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Translation of 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei <\/a><\/em>in Chinese<\/a>
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Eliot Weinberger’s classic study of “how a Chinese poem is translated,” Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei<\/em>, has just been published in Chinese translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a quick write-up about it, from The World of Chinese<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For American translator and writer Eliot Weinberger, this is all part of the charm of the job. Weinberger has collected different versions of\u00a0\u201cThe Deer Park\u201d from all over the world, and in his book\u00a019 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei<\/em>, chose a select number to introduce and review, from simple transliterations to Kenneth Rexroth\u2019s highly loose interpretation. As Octavio Paz writes in an afterword to the book: \u201cEliot Weinberger\u2019s commentary on the successive translations of Wang Wei\u2019s little poem illustrates, with succinct clarity, not only the evolution of the art of translation in the modern period but, at the same time, the changes in poetic sensibility.\u201d<\/p>

Now, Weinberger\u2019s book has been translated back into Chinese, and published by the Commercial Press. Whether you are interested in Chinese poetry, or simply curious about the vagaries of translation, it comes highly recommended.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Click here <\/a>for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eliot Weinberger’s classic study of “how a Chinese poem is translated,” Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, has just been published in Chinese translation. Here’s a quick write-up about it, from The World of Chinese: For American translator and … 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":[3],"tags":[47,30,49,344],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-1aD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3592,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3592","url_meta":{"origin":4503,"position":0},"title":"Link on Weinberger’s 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Perry Link at the New York Review of Books reviews the expanded re-release of 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, by Eliot Weinberger. 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