Eoyang, Eugene Chen

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EOYANG, Eugene Chen

EOYANG, Eugene Chen. American (born Hong Kong), b. 1939. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Translations. Career: Doubleday and Co., NYC, editorial trainee, 1960-61, editor of Anchor Books, 1961-66; Indiana University-Bloomington, lecturer, 1969-71, assistant professor, 1971-74, associate professor, 1974-78, professor of comparative literature, 1978-, associate dean of research and graduate development, 1977-80, chair of Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, 1982-84, resident and founding director, East Asian Summer Language Institute, 1984-89; Lingnan College (University), Hong Kong, chair/professor of English, 1996-. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, visiting professor, 1987; Royal Society or the Promotion of Arts, Merchandise, and Commerce, fellow; lecturer at colleges and universities. Publications: The Transparent Eye: Translation, Chinese Literature, and Comparative Poetics, 1993; Coat of Many Colors: Reflections on Diversity by a Minority of One, 1995; Borrowed Plumage: Polemical Essays on Translation, 2003. EDITOR: (and trans., and author of intro. and notes) Ai Qing: Selected Poems, 1982; (regional ed. for China) HarperCollins World Reader; (co-) Translating Chinese Literature.