A collection of translated Chinese short fiction, literary essays, autobiographical essays, and essays on Chinese thought and cross-cultural translation. Contributors are from China, the United States, and Germany.
Author(s): Timothy Huson; Craig Gallup; Zhou Zhengjie; Yu Hua; Chen Jiyi; Yan Xi Zao; Klaus Vieweg; Kevin Nan Gan; Pang Huanyi; Lu Wei; Zhuang Jiamin; Li Huiyin; Tom Hoy
Series: 13
Edition: first
Publisher: IntLingo Inc., Westbury, New York & Zilin Limited, Guangzhou.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 251
City: Westbury, New York and Guangzhou
Tags: Chinese culture, Chinese thought, Chinese literature, Literary translation
Introduction to Volume Thirteen – Culture and Nature, Individual and Community, by Timothy Huson............ 7
A Note on the Translations...................................................................................................................................... 14
A Note from Assistant Editor Zhou Shengjie.......................................................................................................... 16
Chinese Stories in Translation................................................................................................................................. 18
In Company with a Depression Sufferer, by Chen Jiyi, (translators: Zhou Shengjie, Liu Zhiting,
Timothy Huson) ....................................................................................................................................................... 19
Death, Illusion, and Reality in Chen Jiyi's “In Company With a Depression Sufferer,” by Timothy Huson......... 58
A Long Journey from Home at Eighteen, by Yu Hua (translators: Zhou Shengjie, Zhang Yu, Timothy Huson).. 81
Life's Lessons in Yu Hua's “A Long Journey From Home at Eighteen,” by Pang Huanyi...................................... 95
Buried in Peace, by Yan Xi Zao (translators: Tan Chunli and Timothy Huson) .................................................. 104
入土为安.................................................................................................................................................................. 120
The Circle: a Review of Yan Xi Zao's “Buried in Peace,” by Lu Wei...................................................................... 132
Auto-Biographical Essays....................................................................................................................................... 136
Self-analysis, by Zhuang Jiamin..............................................................................................................................137
My Childhood, by Li Huiyin....................................................................................................................................156
Poetry.......................................................................................................................................................................164
Know Now, by Tom Hoy..........................................................................................................................................165
Essays on Chinese Culture ......................................................................................................................................167
The Expressivity of Chinese Instrumental Music, by Kevin Nan Gan...................................................................168
The Taint of Determinateness – The East and Buddhism from the Perspective of Hegel, by Klaus Vieweg .......183
Inner Enlightenment, Literature, and Literary Translation, by Timothy Huson ..................................................211
Contributors (in alphabetical order) ......................................................................................................................244
Editorial Board .......................................................................................................................................................246
