A History of Western Appreciation of English-translated Tang Poetry

• Main Author: Jiang, Lan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: China Academic Library,
• Subjects: Poetry.; History.; Culture-Study and teaching.; Literature-Translations.; Poetry and Poetics.; History, general.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Translation Studies.

This book examines the development of English-translated Tang poetry and its propagation to the Western world. It consists of two parts, the first of which addresses the initial stage of English-translated Tang poetry's propagation, and the second exploring its further development. By analyzing...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• An overview of the history background
• Research on the early significant texts
• British Sinologist Herbert A. Giles and his contributions
• Other early Sinologist and their outstanding contributions
• British poet Launcelot A. Cranmer-brng and Tang poetry
• The British sinologist and poet Arthur Waley
• British diplomat William J. B. Fletcher
• The propagation of Tang poetry in the west: historical background and characteristics of its developing stage
• American adaptation of Tang poetry translations from Europe
• Tang poetry in classical Chinese Poetry anthologies
• Ezra Pound's Cathay and the trabslation of Tang poetry to the west
• The beginning studies on Chinese poetic theories
• Fir-flower tablets and its authors
• Contributions by Chinese-American scholars
• Development after the 1950S
• Conclusion
• Bibliography.