Yang Guobin (translator into English) and Zhou Zhenfu (translator into modern Chinese). [Liu Xie.] Dragon-Carving and the Literary Mind.(Book review)

From: China Review International | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Eoyang, Eugene Chen | Copyright information

Yang Guobin (translator into English) and Zhou Zhenfu (translator into modern Chinese). [Liu Xie.] Dragon-Carving and the Literary Mind. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2003-799 pp. in 2 vols. 110.00 RMB, ISBN 7-5600-2996-5.

The Wenxing diaolong is an incredible work: part literary theory, part literary criticism, part cosmological treatise, it is also perhaps the best guide I know on how to write well. The translator for such a work must be thorou...

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