The Chinese Translations

by Witter Bynner

Book Overview

Lyrical translations of two famous Chinese works - Chu Sun's Three Hundred Poems of the T'ang and Laozu's Tao Te Ching - as interpreted by renowned poet Witter Bynner.

In 1918, while visiting the University of California, Berkeley, Witter Bynner met Kiang Kang-hu, a professor of Chinese. They would spend the next eleven years collaborating on English translations of T'ang Dynasty poems,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374517088
• ISBN13: 9780374517083
• Release Date: June 1982
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"