Publisher description: Interpreting Culture Through Translation is an anthology of articles compiled to honor one of the foremost translators and interpreters of the Chinese classics, Professor D. C. Lau. The articles take as their central theme the project of making culture embedded in one language accessible and understandable to a second. This theme is pursued directly through original renderings of Chinese literary texts into English, as well as through critical reflection on the process and problems of translating Chinese culture both linguistically and conceptually into the English medium, and vice versa. A truly international group of scholars from Asia, Europe and North America who collectively represent many of our most distinguished seats of learning join the discussion from across the disciplines of sinologyfrom linguistics and philology to literature, anthropology, history, philosophy and religion.
Includes bibliographical references
Bibliogr. D. C. Lau S. [279] - 285
Inhalt: Introduction / Ames, Roger T. -- From Confucius to Xunzi: an ambiquity of order in classical confucianism / Ames, Roger T. -- The English sandwich: obscenity, punning and bilingualism in Hong Kong Cantonese / Baker, Hugh D.R. -- A comparative view of dramatic romance: the Winter's tale and The peony pavilion / Birch, Cyril -- Problems in philosophical translation: translating the major concepts in an Exposition of Benevolence / Chan, Sin-wai -- Ten P'u-sa-man poems from Tun-huang / Chow, Tse-tsung, Schlepp, Wayne -- The spectrum of accessibility: types of humour in The Destinies of the Flowers in the Mirror / Elvin, Mark -- Two notes on the translation of Taoist classics / Graham, A.C. -- Where cross-fertilization fails: a short critique of the Wilhelm/Baynes translation of the Book of Changes / Ho, Richard M.W. -- Some lyrics from Tun-huang / Liu, Ts'un-yan -- Reading Yan Fu's Tian Yan Lun / Ng, Mau-sang -- What causes this? / Peterson, Willard J. -- The use of "empty" words in Chinese and English / Pollard, David E. -- Chou Te-ch'ing's preface the Chung-yuan Yin-yun / Schlepp, Wayne -- Mao Shan Revisited / Saso, Michael -- Lyrics from the Ts'ang Hai Lou Tz'u Ch'ao / Whitaker, Katherine -- Appendix: publications of Prof. D.C. Lau -- Contributors.