Modern Chinese poetry: Translation and translatability

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 600-609
Author(s):  
Michelle Yeh
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Poetry ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Poetry Translation

Cultural loss in the English translation of Chinese poetry

Babel ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liu Yang
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Cultural Translation ◽  
Chinese Poetry ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Poetry Translation ◽  
Free Translation ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Sound Foundation ◽  
Language Text

Translation is to reproduce the meaning and style of a source language text in a target language text in consideration of the cultural differences. Because of dramatic differences between the cultures, translators have to sacrifice something, such as time, religious connotation, and the wording of the original poem to obtain its aesthetic value and its original beauty. In this paper the author examines the poetry translation focusing on the basic concepts of cultural translation and the difficulties of Chinese poetry translation, and special attentions are paid on losses and the strategies in the translation. Beginning from the basic concepts of cultural translation, the paper expounds the essence of the cultural translation in order to lay a sound foundation for the following analysis of the poetry translation. In Part 2, the paper points out the difficulties of Chinese poetry translation that arise from the differences between Chinese and English cultures .Part 3 is a tentative analysis of the losses in the English translation of Chinese poetry and categorizes the losses into four groups:the loss of time;the loss of religious connotation ;the loss in wording; the loss of allusion. To address the losses, the author proposes several strategies such as free translation , transfer of allusion and annotation.

TAOISM AND MODERN CHINESE POETRY

1988 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHELLE YEH
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Poetry ◽  
Modern Chinese

Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry

1993 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 888
Author(s):  
Simon Patton ◽  
Michelle Yeh
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Poetry ◽  
Modern Chinese

New poetics in China

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-217
Author(s):  
Norbert Francis
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Chinese Poetry ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Modern Chinese

A new study of modern Chinese poetry has been published that deserves the attention of linguists working in both the applied and theoretical fields. The focus of the book is experimental and avant-garde literature, and as such it raises questions that are different than the ones we are accustomed to considering in the field of poetics. This review essay considers proposals for understanding poetic ability and sensibility from the point of view of applications of cognitive science.

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