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The Study on Translation of Chai Tou Feng by Lu You Based on House's
Advances in Intelligent Systems Research, volume 163 8th International Conference on Management, Education and Information (MEICI 2018) The Study on Translation of Chai Tou Feng by Lu You Based on House’s Translation Quality Assessment Mode Xiaoyan Wu Secondary Vocational and Technical School, Yingcheng, Hubei [email protected] Keywords: House’s Model of Translation Quality Assessment; Chai Tou Feng; Applicability Abstract. Song Ci is a kind of unique literary form in the history of Chinese culture, so it is difficult to translate it into English. This thesis applies House’s model of translation quality assessment to evaluate the English version of Chai Tou Feng by Lu You, which demonstrates its applicability and is helpful to future research of Tang poetry and Song Ci. Introduction Translation Quality Assessment Model, which was put forward by Juliane House in A Model of Translation Quality Assessment and Translation Quality Assessment: A Model Revisited, is considered as the first completely theoretical and practical translation quality assessment model in the field of international translation criticism. It is common to find out that a number of Chinese proses and novels were assessed by some theories, such as Transformational Generative Grammar and Equivalence Theory and so on. However, it is rare to follow House’s Translation Quality Assessment Model to assess literary works, especially Tang poetry and Song Ci, which occupy important positions in the ancient Chinese literature. Therefore, this thesis applies House’s Translation Quality Assessment Model to analyzing Chai Tou Feng by Lu You and its English version. On one hand, it helps us to apply abstract translation theories to analyzing literary works, films and Tv series; on the other hand, it contributes to spreading Chinese culture to the world, which enables the world to learn China better. -
Constructing the Seventh Century
COLLÈGE DE FRANCE – CNRS CENTRE DE RECHERCHE D’HISTOIRE ET CIVILISATION DE BYZANCE TRAVAUX ET MÉMOIRES 17 constructing the seventh century edited by Constantin Zuckerman Ouvrage publié avec le concours de la fondation Ebersolt du Collège de France et de l’université Paris-Sorbonne Association des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance 52, rue du Cardinal-Lemoine – 75005 Paris 2013 PREFACE by Constantin Zuckerman The title of this volume could be misleading. “Constructing the 7th century” by no means implies an intellectual construction. It should rather recall the image of a construction site with its scaffolding and piles of bricks, and with its plentiful uncovered pits. As on the building site of a medieval cathedral, every worker lays his pavement or polishes up his column knowing that one day a majestic edifice will rise and that it will be as accomplished and solid as is the least element of its structure. The reader can imagine the edifice as he reads through the articles collected under this cover, but in this age when syntheses abound it was not the editor’s aim to develop another one. The contributions to the volume are regrouped in five sections, some more united than the others. The first section is the most tightly knit presenting the results of a collaborative project coordinated by Vincent Déroche. It explores the different versions of a “many shaped” polemical treatise (Dialogica polymorpha antiiudaica) preserved—and edited here—in Greek and Slavonic. Anti-Jewish polemics flourished in the seventh century for a reason. In the centuries-long debate opposing the “New” and the “Old” Israel, the latter’s rejection by God was grounded in an irrefutable empirical proof: God had expelled the “Old” Israel from its promised land and given it to the “New.” In the first half of the seventh century, however, this reasoning was shattered, first by the Persian conquest of the Holy Land, which could be viewed as a passing trial, and then by the Arab conquest, which appeared to last. -
MEDIEVAL DAMASCUS Arabic Book Culture, Library Culture and Reading Culture Is Significantly Enriched.’ Li Guo, University of Notre Dame and MEDIEVAL
PLURALITY KONRAD HIRSCHLER ‘This is a tour de force of ferocious codex dissection, relentless bibliographical probing and imaginative reconstructive storytelling. Our knowledge of medieval MEDIEVAL DAMASCUS DAMASCUS MEDIEVAL Arabic book culture, library culture and reading culture is significantly enriched.’ Li Guo, University of Notre Dame AND MEDIEVAL The first documented insight into the content and DIVERSITY structure of a large-scale medieval Arabic library The written text was a pervasive feature of cultural practices in the medieval Middle East. At the heart of book circulation stood libraries that experienced a rapid expansion from the DAMASCUS twelfth century onwards. While the existence of these libraries is well known, our knowledge of their content and structure has been very limited as hardly any medieval Arabic catalogues have been preserved. This book discusses the largest and earliest medieval library of the PLURALITY AND Middle East for which we have documentation – the Ashrafiya library in the very centre of IN AN Damascus – and edits its catalogue. The catalogue shows that even book collections attached to Sunni religious institutions could hold very diverse titles, including Muʿtazilite theology, DIVERSITY IN AN Shiʿite prayers, medical handbooks, manuals for traders, stories from the 1001 Nights and texts extolling wine consumption. ARABIC LIBRARY ARABIC LIBRARY Listing over two thousand books the Ashrafiya catalogue is essential reading for anybody interested in the cultural and intellectual history of Arabic societies. -
An Explanation of Gexing
Front. Lit. Stud. China 2010, 4(3): 442–461 DOI 10.1007/s11702-010-0107-5 RESEARCH ARTICLE XUE Tianwei, WANG Quan An Explanation of Gexing © Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag 2010 Abstract Gexing 歌行 is a historical and robust prosodic style that flourished (not originated) in the Tang dynasty. Since ancient times, the understanding of the prosody of gexing has remained in debate, which focuses on the relationship between gexing and yuefu 乐府 (collection of ballad songs of the music bureau). The points-of-view held by all sides can be summarized as a “grand gexing” perspective (defining gexing in a broad sense) and four major “small gexing” perspectives (defining gexing in a narrow sense). The former is namely what Hu Yinglin 胡应麟 from Ming dynasty said, “gexing is a general term for seven-character ancient poems.” The first “small gexing” perspective distinguishes gexing from guti yuefu 古体乐府 (tradition yuefu); the second distinguishes it from xinti yuefu 新体乐府 (new yuefu poems with non-conventional themes); the third takes “the lyric title” as the requisite condition of gexing; and the fourth perspective adopts the criterion of “metricality” in distinguishing gexing from ancient poems. The “grand gexing” perspective is the only one that is able to reveal the core prosodic features of gexing and give specification to the intension and extension of gexing as a prosodic style. Keywords gexing, prosody, grand gexing, seven-character ancient poems Received January 25, 2010 XUE Tianwei ( ) College of Humanities, Xinjiang Normal University, Urumuqi 830054, China E-mail: [email protected] WANG Quan International School, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing 100029, China E-mail: [email protected] An Explanation of Gexing 443 The “Grand Gexing” Perspective and “Small Gexing” Perspective Gexing, namely the seven-character (both unified seven-character lines and mixed lines containing seven character ones) gexing, occupies an equal position with rhythm poems in Tang dynasty and even after that in the poetic world. -
Dissertation Section 1
Elegies for Empire The Poetics of Memory in the Late Work of Du Fu (712-770) Gregory M. Patterson Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2013 ! 2013 Gregory M. Patterson All rights reserved ABSTRACT Elegies for Empire: The Poetics of Memory in the Late Work of Du Fu (712-770) Gregory M. Patterson This dissertation explores highly influential constructions of the past at a key turning point in Chinese history by mapping out what I term a poetics of memory in the more than four hundred poems written by Du Fu !" (712-770) during his two-year stay in the remote town of Kuizhou (modern Fengjie County #$%). A survivor of the catastrophic An Lushan rebellion (756-763), which transformed Tang Dynasty (618-906) politics and culture, Du Fu was among the first to write in the twilight of the Chinese medieval period. His most prescient anticipation of mid-Tang concerns was his restless preoccupation with memory and its mediations, which drove his prolific output in Kuizhou. For Du Fu, memory held the promise of salvaging and creatively reimagining personal, social, and cultural identities under conditions of displacement and sweeping social change. The poetics of his late work is characterized by an acute attentiveness to the material supports—monuments, rituals, images, and texts—that enabled and structured connections to the past. The organization of the study attempts to capture the range of Du Fu’s engagement with memory’s frameworks and media. It begins by examining commemorative poems that read Kuizhou’s historical memory in local landmarks, decoding and rhetorically emulating great deeds of classical exemplars. -
UC Berkeley Berkeley Undergraduate Journal
UC Berkeley Berkeley Undergraduate Journal Title Tales from the Cinnamon Sea: Literary Appropriation and the Creation of Paradise in the works of Fan Chengda Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/36n4t98z Journal Berkeley Undergraduate Journal, 29(1) ISSN 1099-5331 Author Merlo, Phillip Edward Publication Date 2016 DOI 10.5070/B3291030167 Peer reviewed|Undergraduate eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California Tales from the Cinnamon Sea TALES FROM THE CINNAMON SEA: Literary Appropriation and the Creation of Paradise in the Works of Fan Chengda By Phillip Merlo his paper introduces the reader to China’s Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279), and specif- cally the diplomat, court ofcial, and poet Fan Chengda (1127-1279). During his years in government bureaucracy Fan Chengda traveled widely throughout the Southern Song Em- Tpire. During his travels he wrote several travel diaries, encyclopedias, and geographical treatises, in addition to thousands of extant travel poems. Tis paper investigates two of his works in particular: the Canluan lu and the Guihai yuheng zhi (both circa 1171-1174), both written during his travels to Guilin in the far South of the empire. Canluan lu, or the Register of Mounting a Simurgh is a travel diary of his trip to Guilin, and Guihai yuheng zhi is a geographical encyclopedia of Guilin and its surroundings. Comparative analysis of the two texts shows that in an apparent attempt to validate his self-image as an ideal Song scholar-ofcial, Fan Chengda appropriated historical descriptions of Guilin from past scholars. His in-text statements as well as his descriptive style suggest that Fan Chengda wished to identify and commune with scholars from other eras of Chinese dynastic his- tory. -
On the Development of Tourist Products of Poem in Qinhuangdao
Asian Culture and History; Vol. 6, No. 2; 2014 ISSN 1916-9655 E-ISSN 1916-9663 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education On the Development of Tourist Products of Poem in Qinhuangdao Wenjing Guo1 1 Qinhuangdao Branch of Northeast Petroleum University, Qinhuangdao, China Correspondence: Wenjing Guo, Qinhuangdao Branch of Northeast Petroleum University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China. E-mail: [email protected] Received: January 13, 2014 Accepted: January 31, 2014 Online Published: June 26, 2014 doi:10.5539/ach.v6n2p196 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ach.v6n2p196 Abstract Qinhuangdao is rich in natural resources as well as poetic resources. Against the city’s background of the focus on tourism, the paper deals with the following aspects, namely, the collation of the ancient poems concerning the city, the significance of poem on the development of tourist products and the strategy of the development. Meanwhile, it deeply explores the way to organically combine the poetic culture and tourist resources in order to promote the development of Qinhuangdao’ tourism. Keywords: Qinhuangdao, tourist products of poem, development 1. Introduction Poem is a unique cultural phenomenon with a long history in China and its significant cultural connotation and a large amount of information exert great influence on our thinking and behaviors. As a world-famous tourist city, Qinhuangdao boasts beautiful scenery and places of historic interest. Since ancient times, numerous emperors, ministers and men of literary have visited the place and written countless poems to eulogize the beauty and history, leaving rich cultural heritage to us. Exploring the literary treasure and combining the poetic culture with the tourist resources will promote the development of tourism in Qinhuangdao. -
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List of Societies Whose Audit has not been conducted since last 3 or more years/Annual Return Sr. No. Reg. No. Soc. Name Soc. Address Zone Status 1 1232S-GH NAV NIKETAN CGHS LTD B-83, AMAR COLONY, LAJPAT NAGAR, NEW DELHI : 110 024 South ACTIVE 2 1451ND-GH PREETI PRISHAD CGHS LTD. DB-84E, DDA FLATS, HARI NAGAR, NEW DELHI: 110 063 New Delhi ACTIVE 3 875E-GH NAV TARANG COOP. G/H SOCIETY LTD H-26, OLD GOBIND PURA EXT.,DELHI-51 East ACTIVE 4 724-INDL THE JAIN H/L COOP. INDL. (P) SOCIETY LTD. F413 GALI NO. 11, BHAGIRATH VIHAR, DELHI-94 North East ACTIVE THE BAKARWALA COOP. BRICKS KILN (I) 5 24W-INDL SOCIETY LTD. SURERE, NAJAFGARH, N. DELHI-43 West ACTIVE LIQUIDATE 6 24W-NMPS THE BAKARWALA COOP. M/P SOCIETY LTD. West D THE PANDWAL KHOODS COOP N.M.P SOCIETY South LIQUIDATE 7 32-NMPS LTD V.P.O PANDWAL KHOODS, NEW DELHI West D 8 505S-TC The Sikh Coop. Thrift & Credit Society Ltd. 61, Hemkunt Colony, New Delhi- South ACTIVE South 9 124-NMPS THE PALAM COOP N.M.P SOCIETY LTD V&PO, PALAM , NEW DELHI West ACTIVE 211NW- North 10 NMPS BAKAOLI COOL M/P SOCIETY LTD VILLAGE BAKAOLI, DELHI West DEFUNCT NON- 216NE- FUNCTION 11 NMPS THE BABARPUR M/P COOP. SOCIETY LTD. VILLAGE BABARPUR, SHAHDARA, DELHI-32 North East AL Chiragh Delhi Palti Yadram Coop. Thrift & Credit 12 230S-TC Sociey Ltd. 830 Chiragh Delhi,New Delhi-17 South ACTIVE 138NW- North 13 NMPS BUKHTAWAR PUR COOP. -
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On A Snowy Night: Yishan Yining (1247-1317) and the Development of Zen Calligraphy in Medieval Japan Xiaohan Du Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy under the Executive Committee of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2021 © 2021 Xiaohan Du All Rights Reserved Abstract On A Snowy Night: Yishan Yining (1247-1317) and the Development of Zen Calligraphy in Medieval Japan Xiaohan Du This dissertation is the first monographic study of the monk-calligrapher Yishan Yining (1247- 1317), who was sent to Japan in 1299 as an imperial envoy by Emperor Chengzong (Temur, 1265-1307. r. 1294-1307), and achieved unprecedented success there. Through careful visual analysis of his extant oeuvre, this study situates Yishan’s calligraphy synchronically in the context of Chinese and Japanese calligraphy at the turn of the 14th century and diachronically in the history of the relationship between calligraphy and Buddhism. This study also examines Yishan’s prolific inscriptional practice, in particular the relationship between text and image, and its connection to the rise of ink monochrome landscape painting genre in 14th century Japan. This study fills a gap in the history of Chinese calligraphy, from which monk- calligraphers and their practices have received little attention. It also contributes to existing Japanese scholarship on bokuseki by relating Zen calligraphy to religious and political currents in Kamakura Japan. Furthermore, this study questions the validity of the “China influences Japan” model in the history of calligraphy and proposes a more fluid and nuanced model of synthesis between the wa and the kan (Japanese and Chinese) in examining cultural practices in East Asian culture. -
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Book Review Zong-Qi Cai, Editor. How to Read Chinese Poetry: A
Series IV, Volume 2, No. 2, October 2012 Book Review Zong-Qi Cai, Editor. How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology, New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. 426pp. (ISBN 0231139411) How to Read Chinese Poetry is a detailed anthology of English translation of Chinese poems with Chinese characters and pinyin. It is arranged chronologically in six parts, ranging from the Zhou Dynasty--the era of the The Book of Poetry (Shijing)--to the Qing Dynasty, ending with Gan Lirou’s (1743-1819) poetry. It covers all major poetic genres, such as poetry (shi), rhapsody (fu), lyric (ci), and song poems (qu). The fifteen contributors to this anthology are all excellent scholars in their own fields. For example, David R. Knechtges, who has translated all the rhapsodies preserved in the Selections of Refined Literature (Wen xuan) outstandingly, contributed the chapter on rhapsodies: “An Ancient-Style Rhapsody (Gufu)”; Grace S. Fong, who is well known for her works on gender and poetry in late imperial China, composed the chapter on “Shi Poetry of the Ming and Qing Dynasties”. A very useful feature of this anthology is that it not only provides English translation, but also offers Chinese characters and corresponding pinyin. I used part of this book when teaching pre- modern Chinese literature, and found that students appreciated the way that poems were presented and analyzed, because most of them were learning Chinese language at the same time. To re-enhance the learning experience, there is a web-based sound recording as a companion to this volume, which allows students to listen to native speakers reading the poems. -
Scientific Analysis of 7Th- to 9Th-Century Pottery from Lundenwic
London in the Not-so-Dark Ages Lyn Blackmore Londinium Lundenwic 5th century urn: St Martin-in-the- Fields London Early and Middle Saxon London - coming out of the Dark Ages? 1. Background - Rural settlement c AD 400-650 - City and Lundenwic, early finds 2. The development of Lundenwic - Roman to Saxon London - Burials - Growth and organisation of Lundenwic - Trade and industry - Decline 3. Summing up Late 4th-/5th-century finds Roman riverside wall strengthened AD 388-402 St Bride’s Billingsgate bathhouse Museum of London B538 (M) Eastern cemetery Silver ingot found Western near Tower of London cemetery Early Saxon rural settlement and cemeteries Fish trap , Early Saxon finds St John Clerkenwell Roman western cemetery St Bride’s Billingsgate bathhouse St Martin-in- the-Fields Glass cone beaker and pottery pedestal beaker from the Mitcham cemetery (Clark 1989) 5th- to 6th-century pottery Chaff- and sandstone-tempered wares Emerging kingdoms, changing faith • AD 597 Augustinian mission • AD 604 St Paul’s founded • AD 616-653 East Saxon reversion to paganism • AD 653 Christianity re-established Britain c AD 600 City, near St Paul’s? Saxon finds from outside the City (pre-1983) 7th-century palm cup, The Garrick St Martin-in-the-Fields, Street ring, late found 1722 in a 7th-/early 8th- The Fetter Lane sword sarcophagus burial century pommel, 8th-century © British Museum © British Museum © British Museum Early excavations in Westminster The Savoy, Strand, 1930s From Clark 1989 The Treasury, 1960s Arundel House, Strand, 1970s Lundenwic as understood 1984 From The London Archaeologist From Popular Archaeology Middle Saxon London, as understood c 1990 Vince 1990 Map from Clark 1989 2003 2012 2004 2013 Lundenwic ‘discovered’ 1984 First excavation at Jubilee Hall, 1985 Royal Opera House Since then over 80 excavations and watching briefs carried out Early and Middle Saxon London - coming out of the Dark Ages? 1.