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139:'s 'philosophical poem, consisting of twenty-four apparently unconnected stanzas'. This poem, according to Professor Giles, 'is admirably adapted to exhibit the forms under which pure Taoism commends itself to the mind of a cultivated scholar.' This is what Professor Giles thinks Ssu-K'ung Tu to have done, but what Ssu-K'ung Tu really does is to convey in imageries of surpassing beauty the impressions made upon a sensitive mind by twenty-four different kinds of poetry—'pure, ornate, grotesque', etc. 111:
comparative success in a general historical survey of the subject". But he adds that "It may be said without offence that a work which would be inadequate to the requirements of a native public, may properly be submitted to English readers as an introduction into the great field which lies beyond". A large part of the book is devoted to translations, "enabling the Chinese author, so far as is possible, to speak for himself".
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Although there had been surveys of Chinese literature in Japanese, it was the first such survey to appear in English. In his preface, Giles claims that such a work of history was not already available, even in Chinese, since Chinese scholars realized the "utter hopelessness" of "achieving even
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commented that "'History of Chinese Literature' was a misnomer; it was a series of attempted essays on certain Chinese works, and was not even an outline covering the successive periods.”
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used Giles' translations as the basis for what have been called his English "translations of translations".
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noted what he called an "amusing mistake" in Giles' "very readable book." Giles:
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A Poetics of Translation: Between Chinese and English Literature
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Herbert Giles
Chinese literature
Herbert Giles
Lin Yutang
Qian Zhongshu
Ssu-k'ung Tu
Ezra Pound
Google Books
A History of Chinese Literature
Internet Archive
A History of Chinese Literature
Project Gutenberg
Wang (2013)
"Dr. Giles's History of Chinese Literature"
The China Review
Giles (1901)
On 'Old Chinese Poetry
Kern (1996)
173
ISBN
978-1-4813-0418-4
Project MUSE
chapter 1754524
Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem
ISBN
0-521-49613-6
The Alter Ego Perspectives of Literary Historiography: A Comparative Study of Literary Histories by Stephen Owen and Chinese Scholars
ISBN
9783642353895

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