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The Translator's Mirror for the Romantic: Cao Xueqin's Dream and David Hawkes' Stone

The Translator's Mirror for the Romantic: Cao Xueqin's Dream and David Hawkes' Stone

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Chinese Translation

ChineseLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1032147741
ISBN13: 9781032147741
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 30 2022
Pages: 250
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The Translator's Mirror for the Romantic: Cao Xueqin's Dream and David Hawkes' Stone is a book that uses precious primary sources to decipher a master translator's art in Stone, a brilliant English translation of the most famous Chinese classic novel Dream.

This book demonstrates a bilingual close reading which sheds light on both the original and its translation. By dividing the process of translation into reading, writing, and revising, and involving the various aspects of Sinological research, textual criticism, recreation, and literary allusions, this book ventures to emphasise the idea of translation as a dialogue between the original and the translated text, between the translator and his former self, and a learning process both for the translator and the reader of his translation.

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