Wonderful! Brendan O'Kane's essay on what goes through his head when he translates a Chinese poem. Linguistically clever, analytical, engaging, very funny. Your Chinese and your English sensibilities will be refined by reading this.
Wonderful! Brendan O'Kane's essay on what goes through his head when he translates a Chinese poem. Linguistically clever, analytical, engaging, very funny. Your Chinese and your English sensibilities will be refined by reading this.
I've never taught or been taught Chinese poetry, but if I ever had to do either I would want to do it like this.
@AdamDSmith1970 Brendan taught an online Intro to Premodern Chinese Literature for us, and (unsurprisingly) knocked it out of the park. Here’s his intro lesson: youtube.com/live/zne5J-D3A…