Eugene Eoyang
Biographic Data
| ID | 382739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eugene Eoyang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eugene |
| FAMILY NAME | Eoyang |
| SIGNATURE | EOYANG E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
This Thing Called the World
whose untold amplitude is as important as the words in print. This deconstruction of reality is staged in multiple counterpoints and role reversals : children not yet born cry and suffer while the dead continue to feel, love, see, and move around; mountains get personified while dead bodies grow trees and new life; wind, water, air have feelings and perform purposeful actions. These strategies blur the boundaries between life and death, city and …
The Persistence of "Cathay" in World Literature
In his article "The Persistence of 'Cathay' in World Literature" Eugene Eoyang argues that China has only recently begun to occupy a place in world literatures as evidenced by the absence of Chinese literature from the early editions of the widely adopted Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces and its token representations in subsequent editions. "Orientalized" images of China still persist partly stemming from the continuing currency of stereoty…
The Blank Slate
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Linguistic Parity
Reading these fascinating essays on translations of the Declaration of Independence into various languages-including Russian, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, French, and Spanish-what emerges is how remarkably paradoxical that document is. It is clearly both revolutionary and universal. Yet, we should perhaps remind ourselves of the inevitable contradiction in those two claims. If it is revolutionary, its precepts run counter to mainstream tradition: …
Translating Chinese Literature
Leading scholar-translators talk about the craft of translating Chinese literature into English
T'ang Transformation Texts
Tao Te Ching
A Taste For Apricots
In 835, Po Chii-yi J his poetry was read by literati and sung by the common people. By his own estimation, he had risen higher in the official hierarchy than many poets before him; yet his songs were sung by proud (and expensive) prostitutes. Behind these lines and their concern with literacy and illiteracy lies an implicit recognition of the disenfranchisement of the unlettered and of the importance of the written word. Command over spoken langu…
The Wang Chao-chun Legend
Beyond Visual and Aural Criteria
The Oral Element in Chinese Fiction
The Solitary Boat
One critic of Chinese poetry has written, suggestively: "Western readers are sometimes struck by what they do not find ...". One of the most familiar constituents of poetry, particularly of the lyric, that will not be found in much of Chinese nature poetry is an identifiable grammatical subject. It is not uncommon for a translator of Chinese poetry to ask "... who is its subject? I? You? She?" The requirements of the translation into Western lang…
The Solitary Boat
One critic of Chinese poetry has written, suggestively: "Western readers are sometimes struck by what they do not find ...". One of the most familiar constituents of poetry, particularly of the lyric, that will not be found in much of Chinese nature poetry is an identifiable grammatical subject. It is not uncommon for a translator of Chinese poetry to ask "... who is its subject? I? You? She?" The requirements of the translation into Western lang…
The Oral Element in Chinese Fiction
Beyond Visual and Aural Criteria
The Wang Chao-chun Legend
A Taste For Apricots
In 835, Po Chii-yi J his poetry was read by literati and sung by the common people. By his own estimation, he had risen higher in the official hierarchy than many poets before him; yet his songs were sung by proud (and expensive) prostitutes. Behind these lines and their concern with literacy and illiteracy lies an implicit recognition of the disenfranchisement of the unlettered and of the importance of the written word. Command over spoken langu…
Tao Te Ching
T'ang Transformation Texts
Translating Chinese Literature
Leading scholar-translators talk about the craft of translating Chinese literature into English
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Linguistic Parity
Reading these fascinating essays on translations of the Declaration of Independence into various languages-including Russian, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, French, and Spanish-what emerges is how remarkably paradoxical that document is. It is clearly both revolutionary and universal. Yet, we should perhaps remind ourselves of the inevitable contradiction in those two claims. If it is revolutionary, its precepts run counter to mainstream tradition: …
The Blank Slate
The Persistence of "Cathay" in World Literature
In his article "The Persistence of 'Cathay' in World Literature" Eugene Eoyang argues that China has only recently begun to occupy a place in world literatures as evidenced by the absence of Chinese literature from the early editions of the widely adopted Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces and its token representations in subsequent editions. "Orientalized" images of China still persist partly stemming from the continuing currency of stereoty…
This Thing Called the World
whose untold amplitude is as important as the words in print. This deconstruction of reality is staged in multiple counterpoints and role reversals : children not yet born cry and suffer while the dead continue to feel, love, see, and move around; mountains get personified while dead bodies grow trees and new life; wind, water, air have feelings and perform purposeful actions. These strategies blur the boundaries between life and death, city and …
Art (10 works) · History (10 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (8 works) · Literature (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · China (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)