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Han Dynasty text employing the so-called clerical script. Nota bene: I am combining the reviews of two books into one; if you have read one review, you have read the other. The fu (*) is a literary form apparently unique to the Chinese, which usually consists of a prose introduction foll...
What a charming, charming book! Burton Watson (b. 1925) is one of our finest translators of classical Chinese and Japanese literature, so it can hardly surprise that he writes beautifully, nor that he provides valuable insights into Japanese literature, history and culture in these essay/articles ...
Yoshishige no Yasutane by Yosai Kikuchi The excellent scholar/translator Burton Watson brings together four short texts on a topic much discussed, if not actually lived, by the educated classes of China and Japan - withdrawing from the "world" to live in simplicity in order to concentrate on the...
Translations are problematic in general, and translations of classical Chinese poetry are particularly difficult (I discuss some of the reasons for this in my review of a book of translations of some of Wang Wei's poems:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/696533663I also explain there why I feel i...
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