The Translator’s Mirror for the Romantic

Cao Xueqin's Dream and David Hawkes' Stone

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Fan Shengyu

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Routledge Studies in Chinese Translation

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The Translator’s Mirror for the Romantic: Cao Xueqin’s Dream and David Hawkes’ Stone is a book that uses precious primary sources to decipher a master translator’s art in Stone, a brilliant English translation of the most famous Chinese classic novel Dream. This book demonstrates a bilingual close reading which sheds light on both the original and its translation. By dividing the process of translation into reading, writing, and revising, and involving the various aspects of Sinological research, textual criticism, recreation, and literary allusions, this book ventures to emphasise the idea of translation as a dialogue between the original and the translated text, between the translator and his former self, and a learning process both for the translator and the reader of his translation. Any student of Chinese language and literature, or Chinese–English translation, will benefit from this book; for students and scholars who want to study David Hawkes and his Stone, this book is an indispensable aid. Readers will be interested to see how a non-theoretical analysis could be used to evaluate this translation, for it makes an extremely important and useful contribution to this subject.

Author Biography:

Fan Shengyu is Associate Professor/Reader in Chinese Studies at the School of Culture, History and Language in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University.

Release date Australia

January 29th, 2024

Author

Fan Shengyu

Series

Routledge Studies in Chinese Translation

Pages

250

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

1 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 24 Halftones, black and white; 25 Illustrations, black and white

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9781032147765

Product ID

38311201

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