ON TRANSLATION AND LITERARY VARIATION IN THE COMPILATION OF CLASSICAL CHINESE LITERARY HISTORY.
The compilation of classical Chinese literary history in English includes another important yet much neglected aspect, that is, the translation of literary works and the consequent literary variation. Based on the analysis of translation and literary variation in the eight English versions of classi...
| Published in: | Comparative Literature Studies Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 373 - 384 |
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Pennsylvania State University Press
2020
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