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...

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Published in:Comparative Literature Studies Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 373 - 384
Main Author: Peina Zhuang
Format: Article
Published: Pennsylvania State University Press 2020
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