Translating Chinese Literature

EUGENE EOYANG is Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University. LIN YAO-FU is in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Taiwan University.

• PrefaceWorking NotesCyril BirchReflections of a Working TranslatorWilliam H. Nienhauser, JRThe Implied Reader and TranslationThe Shih chi as ExampleDavid R. KnechtgesProblems of Translation: The Wen hsuan in EnglishRichard B. MatherTranslating Six Dynasties "Colloquialisms into EnglishThe Shih-shuo hsin-yuGlen DudbridgeA Second Look at Li Wa chuanJames I. Crump, JR.Two Tools for the Translation of San-chuRobert Joe Cutter and William G. CrowellOn Translating Chen Shou's San guo zhi: Bringing Him Back AliveStephen H. WestTranslation as Research: Is There an Audience in the House?Cyril BirchTranslating Ming Plays: Lumudan (The Green Peony)John MinfordxPieces of Eight: Reflections on Translating The Story of the StoneANTHOLOGIZINGDOMINIC CHEUNGThe Parting of the Ways: Anthologies of Early Modern Chinese Poetry in English TranslationJoseph S.M. LauMore Than Putting Things Together: The Anthologizing of Chinese Literature in TranslationVictor H. MairAnthologizing and Anthropologizing: The Place of Nonelite and Nonstandard Culture in the Chinese Literary TraditionDavid D.W. WangTranslating Taiwan: A Study of Four English Anthologies of Taiwan FictionCRITICAL SURVEYSMichelle YehOn English Translation of Modern Chinese Poetry: A Critical SurveyEugene EoyangSpeaking in Tongues: Translating Chinese Literature in a Post-Babelian AgeChing-Hsi PengTranslation and Individual TalentJohn J. DeeneyFoundations for Critical Understanding: The Compilation and Translation of Encyclopedic Dictionaries of Chinese Literary TerminologyContributorsIndex