Research Centre for Translation @ CUHK

Towards a History of Translating:
In Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary
of the Research Centre for Translation, CUHK

Volume I On Translation

Edited by Lawrence Wang-chi Wong
with the assistance of Stephanie Cheuk Wong

ISBN 978-962-7255-36-9

Table of contents
Towards a History of Translating: An Introduction By Lawrence Wang-chi Wong Translated by Stephanie Cheuk Wong		7
General Remarks on Translation By Yan Fu Translated by C. Y. Hsu		31
Notes on Translating Poetry By Stephen C. Soong		35
On Translating Shakespeare By Liang Shiqiu Translated by Chau Siu-cheong and Derek Herforth		49
Lin Qinnan Revisited By Qian Zhongshu Translated by George Kao		67
A Contemporary Appraisal of Lin Shu By Zheng Zhenduo Translated by Diana Yu		85
Translating Chinese Poetry: My Aim and Scope By John Turner		91
Two Types of Misinterpretation: Some Poems from ‘Red Chamber Dream’ By Stephen C. Soong		103
Whose Mountain is This: Gary Snyder’s Translation of Han Shan By Ling Chung		127
The Name and Nature of Translation By Frederick C. Tsai		141
The Translator, the Mirror and the Dream: Some Observations on a New Theory By David Hawkes		153
A Universal Vernacular: When ‘Taipei Characters’ Speak in English By George Kao		175
The Game of Names: A Note on Rendering Chinese Poetry into English Verse By Mimi Chan and Piers Gray		181
Three English Translations of the Shijing By Wong Siu-kit and Li Kar-shu		193
Unto Myself Reborn: Author as Translator By Joseph S. M. Lau		227
H. A. Giles and His Translations By D. E. Pollard		245
Late Twentieth Century Orientalism and Discourses of Selection By Louise Edwards		267
‘The Carving of Insects’: Editor’s Introduction By Mary M. Y. Fung		281