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Beautiful translation:
Red Pine's translation of the Ch'ienchiashih is quite impressive. I've found too many translations from Chinese that are overdone, full of themselves; here is a volume of clear, elegant poetry. Even a beginning Chinese language student can follow along and understand the original text, his translation is so well constructed. And yet these 224 poems lose nothing of their poetic quality. The poems are presented with the Chinese facing the English, with biographical and relevant explanatory notes accompanying each. Includes preface (definitely worth reading), map (very helpful for following some of the more prolific poets), and Tang/Song timeline. This has very quickly become my favourite book of translations.
| Author: | Red Pine | | Binding: | Paperback | | Dewey Decimal Number: | 895.11308 | | EAN: | 9781556591952 | | ISBN: | 1556591950 | | Number Of Pages: | 480 | | Publication Date: | 2003-09-01 |
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