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[9] Smith has defended her translation, stating. To say that my English translation of The Vegetarian is a “completely different book” from the Korean original is, of course, in one sense, entirely correct. Since there is no such thing as a truly literal translation — no two languages’ grammars match, their vocabularies diverge, even ...
The Department of Asia in the British Museum holds one of the largest collections of historical objects from Asia. These collections comprise over 75,000 objects covering the material culture of the Asian continent (including East Asia, South and Central Asia, and Southeast Asia), and dating from the Neolithic age up to the present day.
Portal worked as Curator of Chinese and Korean Collections at the British Museum, 1987–2008, creating the Korea Foundation Gallery (the museum's first gallery of Korean art) in 2000. In 2001 and 2002, she made two visits to North Korea , following the establishment of diplomatic relations, and started collecting contemporary works from the ...
Helen Kay Wang (née Below; simplified Chinese: 汪海岚; traditional Chinese: 汪海嵐; pinyin: Wāng Hǎilán; born 1965) is an English sinologist and translator. [1] She works as curator of East Asian Money at the British Museum in London. She has also published a number of literary translations from Chinese, including an award-winning ...
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. [3] It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
Hur at the National Book Awards in 2023. Anton Hur (Korean: 허정범; born 7 April 1981) is a Korean writer and translator of Korean literature into English. He has translated the works of Kyung-Sook Shin, Hwang Sok-yong, and Sang Young Park, whose Love in the Big City was longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize, and Bora Chung, whose collection of short stories Cursed Bunny was ...
The museum has a collection of more than 23,500 Chinese, Egyptian, Korean, Indian, Japanese and other far east and Asian artefacts. The museum was founded due to the need to house an increasing collection of Oriental artefacts used by the School of Oriental Studies , that were previously housed around the university.
Arthur Waley was born Arthur David Schloss on 19 August 1889 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England.The son of an economist, David Frederick Schloss, he was educated at Rugby School and entered King's College, Cambridge, in 1907 on a scholarship to study Classics, but left in 1910 due to eye problems that hindered his ability to study.