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.
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 评分书籍里面,我对人的自传有着特殊的癖好,一是读起来不用脑子,快得很;二是各种经历,读来饶有趣味;三往深一点说,则是直面“一代人有一代人的命运”的命题。年初的时候读完了英若诚前辈的《水流云在》,今日又读完了杨宪益先生的《杨宪益自传》 。很凑巧,两本自传有个共同点...
评分书籍里面,我对人的自传有着特殊的癖好,一是读起来不用脑子,快得很;二是各种经历,读来饶有趣味;三往深一点说,则是直面“一代人有一代人的命运”的命题。年初的时候读完了英若诚前辈的《水流云在》,今日又读完了杨宪益先生的《杨宪益自传》 。很凑巧,两本自传有个共同点...
评分书籍里面,我对人的自传有着特殊的癖好,一是读起来不用脑子,快得很;二是各种经历,读来饶有趣味;三往深一点说,则是直面“一代人有一代人的命运”的命题。年初的时候读完了英若诚前辈的《水流云在》,今日又读完了杨宪益先生的《杨宪益自传》 。很凑巧,两本自传有个共同点...
一个中国人,到底受了多大委屈,才会选择使用英语书写人生最后也是最重要的自传?
评分一个中国人,到底受了多大委屈,才会选择使用英语书写人生最后也是最重要的自传?
评分一个中国人,到底受了多大委屈,才会选择使用英语书写人生最后也是最重要的自传?
评分一个中国人,到底受了多大委屈,才会选择使用英语书写人生最后也是最重要的自传?
评分一个中国人,到底受了多大委屈,才会选择使用英语书写人生最后也是最重要的自传?
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