Born in 1915 and educated in Oxford, Yang Xianyi is a world-renowned translator. He has translated, with his wife Gladys Yang, numerous Chinese classics such as A Dream of Red Mansions, The Scholars, Selected Works of Lu Xun, which are by now translations par excellence.
It all began with a dream. A young woman saw a white tiger leap into her lap. It was both auspicious and unlucky—her son, the fortune-teller said, would grow up with no brothers, and his father's health would be endangered by his birth. That son, however, would have a distinguished career, after going through many misfortunes and dangers.
The dream was prophetic. The child was his mother's only male child and his father died of illness when the boy was only five. He grew up during the wartime and period of political turmoil in China, passing through many troubles, and he has had a very distinguished career. He is Yang Xianyi, renowned scholar, translator and interpreter of Chinese and Western literature.
This delightful memoir of Yang Xianyi gives a candid and entertaining account of himself as a lighthearted and mischievous young man who immersed himself in the learning of European culture, ancient and modern, when he studied at Oxford in the 1930s. But it is also the illuminating self-portrait of a deeply patriotic intellectual living in a China under the throes of change, giving rare insight into the survival of a courageous, witty and principled individual during the harsh century of Chinese liberation.
看过之后才明白在中国太多时候是时机决定了眼界,政治决定了人生。年轻的富家子弟所谓的知识分子心怀祖国劳苦大众,受够了国民党的腐败,为了更好的未来他们选择了共产主义,然而社会主义或者共产主义快要到来的时候他们发现时代变化了;他们的热血理想或许曾经勾勒着时代...
评分在回忆结束之后,杨宪益将话题拉到了这一刻,他说:“有时我想写些什么,研究些问题,但我再也坐不下来干这些事了。”说不上是厌倦还是年龄问题,据说在戴乃迭过世后,杨宪益就不再做翻译或其他工作,整日里只是坐在沙发上,他拒绝电视,一方面可能是因为视力原因,一方面...
评分看过之后才明白在中国太多时候是时机决定了眼界,政治决定了人生。年轻的富家子弟所谓的知识分子心怀祖国劳苦大众,受够了国民党的腐败,为了更好的未来他们选择了共产主义,然而社会主义或者共产主义快要到来的时候他们发现时代变化了;他们的热血理想或许曾经勾勒着时代...
评分□原业伟 法国哲学家雅克·德里达将翻译追溯到巴别塔,他认为当上帝变乱人类的语言的时候,已经产生了一个悖论,“把翻译这项工作强加给人类,同时又禁止人类翻译。”因此,翻译是必须的,但在绝对意义上又是不可能的。大规模的外籍汉译,创造出了现代的欧化汉语,因而简...
评分去年年末买了两本英文回忆录,这是其中一本,另一本是郑念的life and death in shanghai,很凑巧的发现这两个人都是1915年1月出生,2009年11月逝世,都出生世家而在上世纪的30年代去英国接受教育,解放后都受到了冲击,文革中都坐过牢,郑念在文革中失去的唯一的女儿,杨先生的...
看的英文版,大师的语言那叫一个简洁!中学生都能读。杨先生的海外游学经历给人的感觉就是“有钱任性”。抗战时期回国以后的经历正如网友所说,那就是一部中国现代史了。
评分本想读读大家艳羡的爱情,书里却没涉及多少,只说到一同念书的开始,和后来家庭变故,言语之间也没流露出任何缠绵,倒是有些身外物的感觉。看完有点被触动到的是人活到80多岁,却还能只凭回忆写下过去种种,不容易。
评分看过中文版,白虎星造命,很喜欢杨先生的写作风格,不急不躁
评分2011-8-13 上午十点,蓝泉。可惜是平装本。
评分看过中文版,白虎星造命,很喜欢杨先生的写作风格,不急不躁
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