Translated Work
山雨
Title:
Mountain Rain
Genre:
Poetry
Page Numbers:
3
First Publication Date:
1995
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (China)
Language:
Monolingual (English)
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Author
Name:
YU, Kwang-chung 余光中
Alternate Name:
YU, Kwang-chung
Year of Birth:
1928
Year of Death:
2017
Birthplace:
Nanjing, China
Gender:
Male
Biography:
Born in Nanjing in 1928, Yu fled to Taiwan in 1949 and received university education there. After publishing his first poetry collection in 1952, he co-founded a poetry society with other young authors and went to the United States in 1958. He arrived in Hong Kong in 1974 and joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he nurtured aspiring writers and produced many of his best-known works.
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Translator
Name:
HO, Louise 何少韻
Gender:
Female
Translator Biography:
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Louise Ho was Associate Professor of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and taught creative writing, Shakespeare and English Poetry. She has written poems for more than thirty years and her publications include Local Habitation and Incense Tree: Collected Poems.
Editor
Name:
PARKIN, Andrew 姜安道
Birthplace:
England
Editor Biography:
Born in 1937 in England, Parkin received his BA and MA in English from the University of Cambridge. His PhD in Drama is from Bristol University. He has published several academic books, numerous essays, and two books of poetry, Dancers in a Web and Yokohama Days, Kyoto Knights. He took up the Chair of English at the Chinese University in 1991, where he is a Fellow of Shaw College and University Orator. He is the founder president of the Association for Canadian Studies in Hong Kong.
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Source Text Reference:
收入《白玉苦瓜》(1974)，頁49-50。
Published Date of Source Text:
1974
Target Text Reference:
Renditions, no.5, p.73