Translated Work
白玉苦瓜－－故宮博物院所藏
Title:
White Jade Bitter Gourd － seen at the Palace Museum, Taipei
Genre:
Poetry
Page Numbers:
6 - 7
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:
YU, Kwang-chung 余光中
Gender:
Male
Translator 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.
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147-50。
Published Date of Source Text:
1974
Target Text Reference:
The Night Watchman: A Bilingual Selections of Poems (1992), p.82;NOTES: earlier translation (by others) was published in Renditions, no.5 , p.77