Studies on Yuefu Poetry Translation (Chinese Edition): A Comparative Analysis of Nine Translators‘ Strategies

This is not a collection of Yuefu poems in English translation, and it is not a general introduction to Yuefu poetry. It is a scholarly study, written in Chinese, of how nine representative translators have handled this body of ancient Chinese verse—their strategies, their choices, and what those choices reveal about the gap between Chinese and English poetry. The book selects translators from different periods and traditions: Giles and Waley from the British tradition, Fletcher and Birell, Stephen Owen and Pound from the American side, and Xu Yuanchong, Wang Rongpei and Li Zhengshuan from China. For each one, it examines specific texts, compares renderings, and analyses how language, culture, and poetic form are carried across. It is the final report of a Ministry of Education research project, and it is written for graduate students and researchers in translation studies and classical Chinese poetry. If you want a rigorous, case-based study of Yuefu translation rather than a translated anthology or a general survey—this is it.