Every Rock a Universe: The Yellow Mountains and Chinese Travel Writing
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (757 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1891640704 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 210 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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(David K. Schneider, U Mass, Amherst Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, Vol. Every Rock a Universe was the winner of the prestigious Lucien Stryk Prize for Best Asian Translation of the Year, conferred by ALTA (American Literary Translators Association), 2014:literarytranslators.wordpress/2014/11/16/stryk-prize-awarded-to-jonathan-chaves/As a book that brings to life the beauties of a great work of Chinese travel literature and that also revives for us the poetic, political and religious culture that nurtured it, Every Rock a Universe succeeds brilliantly. 36)
A published original poet and distinguished translator of Chinese poetry, most recently Cloud Gate Song: The Verse of Tang Poet Zhang Ji, his work has been nominated for the National Book Award in the translation category. JONATHAN CHAVES is professor of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures at The George Washington University.
Here Jonathan Chaves presents the first complete translation of Wang’s work in a Western language. The Yellow Mountains (Huangshan) of China’s Anhui province have been famous for centuries as a place of scenic beauty and inspiration, and remain a hugely popular tourist destination today. Unfortunately, his resulting masterpiece of Chinese travel writing was not printed until 1775 and has since remained obscure and available only in Chinese. Introductory essays explore the history of scholarly and religious pilgrimage to the area, and the role of the Yellow Mountains in the great Neo-Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist revivals of the early Qing period, that is, as the center of a yearned-for spiritual and cultural renaissance.. Wang’s newly rediscovered verse is also translated, showing him to be one of the most accomplished poets of his day. A "golden age" of Yellow Mountains travel came in the seventeenth century, when they became a refuge for loyalists protesting the new Qing dynasty, among them poet and artist Wang Hongdu (1646–1721/1722), who dedicated himself to traveling to each and every peak and site and recording his impressions
Great travel writing I hope this wonderful book gets more attention. It's published by a tiny press (that, alas, can't seem to afford copyediting, given the number of typosbut that is a trivial matter). I see no prior reviews on amazon.com, which is too bad. The book is a translation, by Jonathan Chaves, one of my longstanding favorite translators, of a travel book by Wang Hongdu of the early Qing Dynasty. He describe. the Qing-dynasty poet and artist Wang Hongdu (16the Qing-dynasty poet and artist Wang Hongdu (1646-1721/1722) reveals to us that "hiddenness" is actually hiding in plain sight jonathan cott The thirteenth-century Japanese Zen master Dogen wrote: "There are mountains hidden in mountains, and there are mountains hidden in hiddenness." But in his remarkable book on the legendary Yellow Mountains of China's Anhui province, the Qing-dynasty poet and artist Wang Hongdu (1646-1721/1722) reveals to us that "hiddenness" is actually hiding in plain sight on mountains with names like "Start-to-. 6-1721/1722) reveals to us that "hiddenness" is actually hiding in plain sight The thirteenth-century Japanese Zen master Dogen wrote: "There are mountains hidden in mountains, and there are mountains hidden in hiddenness." But in his remarkable book on the legendary Yellow Mountains of China's Anhui province, the Qing-dynasty poet and artist Wang Hongdu (16the Qing-dynasty poet and artist Wang Hongdu (1646-1721/1722) reveals to us that "hiddenness" is actually hiding in plain sight jonathan cott The thirteenth-century Japanese Zen master Dogen wrote: "There are mountains hidden in mountains, and there are mountains hidden in hiddenness." But in his remarkable book on the legendary Yellow Mountains of China's Anhui province, the Qing-dynasty poet and artist Wang Hongdu (1646-1721/1722) reveals to us that "hiddenness" is actually hiding in plain sight on mountains with names like "Start-to-. 6-1721/1722) reveals to us that "hiddenness" is actually hiding in plain sight on mountains with names like "Start-to-. This is a superlative translation of a beautiful and substantial work in classical Chinese travel and pilgrimage Readers should not be misled by the previous two-star review. This is a superlative translation of a beautiful and substantial work in classical Chinese travel and pilgrimage literature with a highly accessible introduction that introduces specialists and non-specialists alike to Wang Hongdu’s life and times. Wang is an important Qing dynasty writer virtually unknown in the West until the pu