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Chinese Literature Translation Archive. The University of Oklahoma Bizzell Memorial Libraries Chinese Literature Translation Archive (CLTA) provides both scholars and students with a wide range of rare books, translation drafts, correspondence, notes, ephemera, and more documentation that helps users to have a deeper understanding of Chinese Literature.
The Chinese Classics, volume III: the Shoo King or the Book of Historical Documents. London: Trubner.; rpt. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1960. (Full Chinese text with English translation using Legge's own romanization system, with extensive background and annotations.) part 1: Prolegomena and chapters 1–26 (up to books of Shang)
Many works of literature in Classical and Literary Chinese have been highly influential in Chinese culture, such as the canon of Tang poetry. However, even with knowledge of its grammar and vocabulary, works in Literary Chinese can be difficult for native vernacular speakers to understand, due to its frequent allusions and references to other ...
The first such book in English was A History of Chinese Literature, by Herbert Giles, published in 1901. 1904's Zhongguo wenxue shi by Lin Chuanjia was the first such history in Chinese. [80] Lin Quanjia was inspired by a 1903 translation of Sasakawa's book.
Kanbun, literally "Chinese writing," refers to a genre of techniques for making Chinese texts read like Japanese, or for writing in a way imitative of Chinese. For a Japanese, neither of these tasks could be accomplished easily because of the two languages' different structures. As I have mentioned, Chinese is an isolating language.
This is a list of Chinese-English translators. Lists and biographies of translators of contemporary literature (fiction, essays, poetry) are maintained by Paper Republic , Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC), and on the Renditions Translator database.
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Chinese translation theory was born out of contact with vassal states during the Zhou dynasty. It developed through translations of Buddhist scripture into Chinese . It is a response to the universals of the experience of translation and to the specifics of the experience of translating from specific source languages into Chinese.