19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

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19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

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Wang Wei

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Some takeaways

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Quality of translation seems subjective, though Eliot Weinberger definitely believes some are better than others.

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There is some value to the quality of the translated poem on its own, versus the quality of the translation as a capturing of the essence of Wang Wei’s original.

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Interesting examples of “poor” translation are when the translator adds a subject (especially first person) to the verbs that don’t really have a subject in the original Chinese.

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