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.
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.
P41 我吃了很多高质量的牛奶和奶油,但这对提高我的法语水平帮助不大。 每个大学生都有一名个人,称作他的“侍从”。 大多数地方都悬挂着阿道夫·希特勒的画像。这种个人崇拜的现象给我留下强烈的印象。这是我初次见到一个活人被当做祖宗或神仙那样崇拜。 ……这是我第一次,...
評分在回忆结束之后,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...
評分□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...
評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...
評分还是原版的书名比较贴切,中文译名太文艺了,不太适合这么现实的一部自传。说它现实是这简直是对一个文人政治觉悟活生生地剥露 p158 尽管我并不知道未来的共产党政府会是什么样。但是我在国名党政权统治下的亲见亲历已经是我对之深恶痛绝 p164 所谓政协,就相当于英国的上议院...
A glimse into a Chinese sholar's life-long journey, and a momentous ephemeron in China's history.
评分本想讀讀大傢艷羨的愛情,書裏卻沒涉及多少,隻說到一同念書的開始,和後來傢庭變故,言語之間也沒流露齣任何纏綿,倒是有些身外物的感覺。看完有點被觸動到的是人活到80多歲,卻還能隻憑迴憶寫下過去種種,不容易。
评分2011-8-13 上午十點,藍泉。可惜是平裝本。
评分The autobiography of YANG Xianyi,first Chinese tranlater of "Dream of the Red Chamber"
评分The autobiography of YANG Xianyi,first Chinese tranlater of "Dream of the Red Chamber"
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