Three Hundred Excellent Ancient Chinese Poems

Author: Xu Yuanchong
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: Xu Yuanchong, born in Nanchang, Jiangxi in 1921, graduated from Southwest Associated University and the University of Paris. Professor of Literature Translation at Peking University. His English works include Exploring the Rhyme of Chinese Poetry in English and The River of Time. His Chinese works include The Art of Translation, On Literary Translation, and In Search of Lost Time. In translation, apart from The Immortal Song (Chinese to English) published by Penguin Books UK, his English translations also include The Book of Songs, The Songs of Chu, Three Hundred Poems of the Tang Dynasty, Three Hundred Poems of the Song Dynasty, Selected Poems of Li Bai, Selected Poems of Su Dongpo, and The Story of the Western Chamber. His English translations of The Songs of Chu and The Story of the Western Chamber are hailed as "the peak of English and American literature" and "comparable to the masterpieces of Shakespeare." His Chinese-to-French translations include Three Hundred Ancient Chinese Poems and Selected Poems of Mao Zedong. His foreign-to-Chinese translations include ten classic works of world universities: [English] Dryden All for Love, Scott Quentin Durward, [French] Hugo Selected Plays of Hugo, Stendhal The Red and the Black, Balzac The School for Wives, Flaubert Madame Bovary, Maupassant The Water, Rolland Jean-Christophe and Gora, [American] Henry Taylor The Flying Horse. China Culture News praises him as "the only expert worldwide who translates Chinese and foreign poems into English and French rhyme."