viii, 358 pages ; 25 cm; Includes papers presented at the first International Conference on the Translation of Chinese Literature held in Taipei, Nov. 19-21, 1990.; Reflections of a working translator /Cyril Birch --The implied reader and translation : the Shih chi as example /William H. Nienhauser, Jr. --Problems of translation : the Wen hsüan in English /David R. Knechtges --Translating six dynasties "colloquialisms" into English : the Shih-shuo hsin-yü /Richard B. Mather --A second look at Li Wa a chuan /Glen Dubridge --Two tools for the translation of San-ch'ü /James I. Crump, Jr. --On translating Chen Shou's San guo zhi : bringing him back alive /Robert Joe Cutter,William G. Crowell --Translation as research : is there an audience in the house? /Stephen H. West --Translating Ming plays : Lemudan (the green peony) /Cyril Birch --"Pieces of eight" : reflections on translating The story of the stone /John Minford --The parting of the ways : anthologies of early modern Chinese poetry in English translation /Dominic Cheung --More than putting things together : the anthologizing of Chinese literature in translation /Joseph S.M. Lau --Anthologizing and anthropologizing : the place of nonelite and nonstandard culture in the Chinese literary tradition /Victor H. Mair --Translating Taiwan : a study of four English anthologies of Taiwan fiction /David D.W. Wang --On English translation of modern Chinese poetry : a critical survey /Michelle Yeh --Speaking in tongues : translating Chinese literature in a post-Babelian age /Eugene Eoyang --Translation and invidivual talent /Ching-Hsi Peng --Foundations for critical understanding : the compilation and translation of encyclopedic dictionaries of Chinese literary terminology /John J. Deeney.; 

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