Poetry in Translingual and Intralingual Practices: The "Song of a Yue Person" and Its Implications.
This essay revisits the "Yueren ge" ("Song of a Yue Person")—a Chu-style verbalization of a "Yue" song—that is normally considered the oldest existing poetic "translation" from a non-Chinese language to classical Chinese. The study makes two main observations followed by critical discussion: first,...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the American Society for Premodern Asia (JASPA) Vol. 146; no. 2; pp. 263 - 288 |
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